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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
