Disable USB port for mass storage

[Arun Shrimali]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Werner Schram <wrschram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Arun,
>
> Arun Shrimali wrote:
>> Can anybody help me how to disable usb ports for mass storages (pen
>> /thumb drives) in Ubuntu 9.10
>>
>> Arun
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Arun Shrimali <arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> I was using few PCs with Ubuntu 8.10, for the security reasons their
>>> USB ports were disabled with the following method ;
>>>
>>> 1. Press Alt+F2 and enter:
>>> polkit-gnome-authorization
>>> 2. Go to Storage => Mount file systems from removable drivers
>>> 3. Press the "Edit..." button
>>> 4. Choose "Active Console: Authentication"
>>> 5. Press the "Modify..." button
>>>
>>> Now with the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, above procedure is not working as
>>> policy toolkit was not in default installation and even after
>>> installing policykit-gnome, about method is not working as could not
>>> find option for removable drives.
>>>
>>> Is there any way in 9.10, I can disable USB ports for mass storages ??
>>>
> In system->administration->users and groups (after installing
> policykit-gnome), you can disable the 'access external storage devices
> automatically' option for specific users. I don't know how to do this
> for every user, or how to set this as the default policy. You could also
> blacklist the usb-storage module, but that method doesn't allow
> exceptions, which might be wanted.
>
> Regards,
> Werner
>
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Thanks for the support