On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 05:14 -0500, arunbkn@xxxxxx wrote: > How can I disable USB ports of my client PCs, such that USB ports will > not be used for mass storage media (pen drives , etc) where as enable > for other purposes such as printer, etc. I haven't done that sort of thing myself, but the parts of the system you want to research will be "udev" and/or "hal". In particular, custom rules. You'd be aiming to set some of your own default rules that make the use of USB storage devices fail (your rules getting in the way of what normally handles USB storage devices). -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. ________________________________________________________________ It said use Windows 98 or better, so I used Linux.