From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Restricting USB access
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:50:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007205053.GB16961@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFACC41AE7.587D1697-ON852577B5.006C93B7-852577B5.006D0ACC@hc-sc.gc.ca>
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:50:55PM -0400, Ryan Lawrie wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> Just wondering if I could get your assistance with something.
>
> I need to secure the USB ports on my LAN workstations so they are not
> writable by users (other than a certain group that I specify). Is this type
> of restriction possible using udev rules?
USB ports are "writeable" or "readable", it depends on the devices you
plug into them that you could then read or write to.
> I was using PolicyKit before but since we've changed OS (from openSUSE11.0
> to 64-bit openSUSE11.2) that no longer seems to function properly.
> Everybody has access to the USB ports now.
You might want to just restrict the users for the specific devices using
a udev rule, or policykit, if that's still around.
What types of devices are you trying to restrict?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 19:50 Restricting USB access Ryan Lawrie
2010-10-07 20:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-08 14:25 ` Ryan Lawrie
2010-10-08 14:35 ` Greg KH
2010-10-08 14:53 ` Kay Sievers
2010-10-08 15:08 ` Kay Sievers
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