[plug] Access control for USB ports

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:00, Stephen Boak wrote:

> I just had a situation where someone waltzed in and stuck a USB
> flash disk in one of my machines!
>
> Is there some way of controlling or password protecting the
> actual ports, to stop the use of flash disks but still allowing
> access to USB keyboard and/or mouse?

Sure; the USB stick will appear as /dev/sd? when mounted.

Either don't auto-mount or restrict permissions on the mount.

> I would also welcome suggestions on how to do the same thing on
> Windows machines as I have to run both OSs at the moment.

A very large hammer fixes Windows; permanently.

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