sameer shinde wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Arun Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
On Monday 16 Feb 2009, Anurag wrote:
2009/2/16 sameer shinde s9sameer@gmail.com:
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me, how do I disable usb storage in linux? I want just to disable usb storage, but usb keyboard / mouse should work in system.
- Remove any references to USB device (usually /dev/sdXY - check the
output from dmesg while attaching USB device) from /etc/fstab. 2. Remove any sudo or root access for the user.
I guess it could be done with HAL policy also (as long users do not have root access to the OS).
How do I do it with HAL policy?
As per Anurag, I checked it for dev/sdXY, which is showing me as /dev/sdb1. How do I block /dev/sdb1 to the users, what if the device picked up other sdbX as /dev/sdb1 is not available?
I also checked in /etc/fstab but could not found any relevant entry in it. FYI - The users does not have admin privileges. It is just a standard linux desktop user.
any go ahed?
As Mrugesh suggested, knock out the usb_storage module. You will find it using the lsmod command. You will find the man pages of lsmod and modprobe interesting.