Disable External Storage (Thumb Drive) on Particular USB Ports

Question

A particular industrial computer has several USB ports accessible from outside the chassis and one USB port inside a secured door.

We need to restrict the accessible USB ports to use with mouse, keyboard and printer so that no storage device can be used on them.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 18 '17 at 01:05

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Try the command below:

#echo "blacklist usb_storage" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

edited Oct 18 '17 at 01:05

pomsky

answered Oct 17 '17 at 20:25

RPrashant

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