Disable access to external devices for specific users
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 13 03:06:36 UTC 2008
On 03/12/2008 06:52 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> How does one disable access to external storage devices like usb flash
> drives and cdroms?
>
> Not adding the users to the plugdev group does not seem to be working as
> the usb drives are automatically being mounted upon insertion.
>
> Here is the output of `id guest`:
> $ id guest
> uid=1001(guest) gid=1001(guest) groups=1001(guest)
>
>
> I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and this issue is present in both the 32bit
> version as well as the 64bit version.
>
System|Administration|Users and Groups|Properties|User Priviledges
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