Re: Disable USB ports

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• Subject: Re: Disable USB ports
• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:36:34 +0000
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:21:25 -0500
arunbkn@xxxxxx wrote:

> 
> Thanks, for lots of suggestions, but still looking for workable solutions. Expecting a good solution in forth coming FC9.

PolicyKit handles this with the policies

org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed

See:

/usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/hal-storage.policy 

And change the relevant things to "no"

Alan

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