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Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04

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nescafe wrote:
> For security reasons i have to block all USB mass storage ports.
>
> I have try :
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf - blacklist usb_storage
> -------------------------------------------------------
> # ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko
> # mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko /root
> -------------------------------------------------------
> sudo rmmod usb_storage
> sudo modprobe -r usb_storage
> -------------------------------------------------------
> None of this is working.
>
> The only thing that is working is automount option. If i [sic] disable this ( in
> gconf ) it will not load USB auto start, but when you start nautilus [sic] you can
> still see "Verbatim USB storage" and you can access it.
>
> How to block usb [sic] mass storage ?

I don't believe that Java has the ability to do that.

This is a rather OS-specific matter. Perhaps something in the OS docs might 
help you?

-- 
Lew
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Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 nescafe <nc@ms.com> - 2012-03-20 14:12 +0100
  Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-20 06:36 -0700
  Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-20 11:29 -0700
    Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 nescafe <nescafe@kkja.com> - 2012-03-20 21:08 +0100
      Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 13:49 -0700
      Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-28 11:30 -0700
  Re: Can not disable USB stick - ubuntu 10.04 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-28 12:02 -0700

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