How Do I Turn Off Usb Ports For Non-root Users?

I am setting up several shared-use computers in a non-profit org, for use by volunteers. OS will be 10.2 with KDE.

The users won't have root access. I want to be able to shut off these people's access to the floppy drive, CD drive and USB ports to prevent theft of org data. But they need to be able to go live when you log in as root.

Any ideas where to start?

Take a look at KDE kiosk. It might do what you want to accomplish...

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/...cle.php/3573736

You could edit the /etc/fstab file. This is where the parameters for mounting floppy & cdrom drives are specified. You want to specify "nouser" instead of "user" so that only root can mount these drives.

See http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html for more info on understanding the fstab file.


I don't know about usb, though.

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As far as I can tell from it's manual, KDE Kiosk can't do this.

Hey Jim.

Further to my response from your other posting (how to turn off hardware) .... I looked at my /etc/fstab file, and see a line that looks like this:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

I'm going to guess that adding "nouser" to column 4 should do the trick. So:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto,nouser 0 0

(of course, your line might look different.... although if you don't have one, then maybe adding one will help)

Does that work?

Try editing /etc/esmgr.conf and commenting out the line:

class desktop includes usb

Curious to see if this works.

Oh and restart resmgr

rcresmgr restart

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