Adrian,

Are you looking to block USB storage devices?  Or are you looking to
have a whitelist of USB devices?

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I'm trying to figure out how to block the install of new USB hardware in
> Linux, sort of like how I can do it in Windows:
>
> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/locking-down-windows-vista-and-windows-7-against-malicious-usb-devices
>
> I'm using blacklisting Dell stuff by vendor ID as an example, though it's
> not my end goal I'm just trying to figure out how things work.
>
> I do a "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" to figure out which keyboard is which,
> then a "udevadm info -a -p /class/input/input10" to probe it for strings I
> can use in a udev rule. My rule looks like this (I tried two different ones,
> and commented things out):
>
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="413c", MODE="0000", RUN+="/opt/kde3/bin/kate"
> #ATTR{modalias}=="input:b0003v413Cp2106e0110-e0,1,4,11,14,k71,72,73,74,75,77,79,7A,7B,7C,7D,7E,7F,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,8A,8C,8E,96,98,9E,9F,A1,A3,A4,A5,A6,AD,B0,B1,B2,B3,B4,B7,B8,B9,BA,BB,BC,BD,BE,BF,C0,C1,C2,F0,ram4,l0,1,2,sfw",
> MODE="0000", RUN+="/opt/kde3/bin/kate"
>
>
> Neather seems to do anything. Any ideas? I'm also not sure how to make some
> rules override others. Yes, I've seen
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#external-run but it's not
> really helping me.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>
>
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