Re: How do I deny user to mount floppy, cdrom and usbstick ?

["Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl-Olov Serrander" <kase@xxxxxxxx>
To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:22 AM
Subject: How do I deny user to mount floppy, cdrom and usbstick ?


> Running FC2/FC3 in a sensitive environment we need to deny ordinary
> users the possibilty to read or write floppy/cdrom/usbsticks.
>
> We need to be able to give som users/machines permissions to do 
> nothing/read/write
> floppy/cdrom/usbsticks.
>
> How can this be done ?
>
> Regards
> --
> Karl-Olov Serrander kase@xxxxxxxx

I *think* you can turn off the floppy and cdrom in /etc/modprobe.conf with 
something like:

alias floppy off
alias cdrom off

I am not sure about USB...  Maybe:

alias usb-storage off

Thomas