How can I disable all USB devices?

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Sorry for reply so late. I'm an intern and I cannot test your
suggestion in the past two days. I didn't fully understand this udev
stuff and your reply, and here is my questions:

a. about ":="
  The man page says that the ":=" means that "Assign a value to a key
finally; disallow any later changes, which may be used to prevent
changes by any later rules."
  So I think a rule like this:

  SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", RUN:="/test.sh usb"

will prevent adding more programs to RUN, and finally stop calling any
"modprobe" in /lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules so that drivers are
not loaded. But the usb devices are still working.

b. The function of steps 2
My environment is a costumed Linux, I cannot find
/lib/modules/$(uname -r) directory...

c. how to identify the device is a usb device.
Just seeing the examples on
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html, I'm more confused.
Each usb device has a particular match keys. I just want to know
whether this device is connecting to usb ports, and manage it.

If anybody has some hints, please tell me. Thanks!



2012/6/5  <Ashish_Bunkar at dell.com>:
> If this is the case here are the steps you can use :
>        1. You can tweak udev rules for USB storagedevices.
>        2. You can explicitely can make your kernel to not load usb storage driver as below
>
>        $  ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko
>        $  mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko /root
>
> Thanks
> ASHU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of ???
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:33 PM
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> Subject: Fwd: How can I disable all USB devices?
>
> Thanks for reply! But it seems not suitable for my job.
>
> Sorry for that I didn't talk about my situation clearly. I was asked to only enable usb Network Interface Card, and disable all other usb devices(like keyboard, mouse, stick, etc.).
>
> I need a way to distinguish different usb devices and disable/enable them. If anyone has some idea, please tell me.
>
> 2012/6/5  <Ashish_Bunkar at dell.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>> You can just disable the USB support for your kernel by editing kernel parameters.
>> Just add "nousb" to you kernel parameters In "/etc/grub.conf" and your kernel should not support USB device thereafter.
>> Also when you would like to enable them again just remove "nousb" from kernel command line and all should  work fine with that.
>>
>> Please let me know if that helped you.
>>
>> Ashish Bunkar
>> Linux Engineering
>> Dell | BDC
>> office +91-80-28078131,  mobile +91-7259183696 Ashish_Bunkar at dell.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of ???
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 8:48 AM
>> To: kernelnewbies
>> Subject: How can I disable all USB devices?
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I want to disable all my USB devices (mouse, keyboard,... ) now, but hope to enable some certain device in the future. And I don't want to recompile kernel or disable usb module.
>>
>> I've searched on the Internet, and it seems that udev manage devices connecting to my computer. Can I use udev to disable all USB devices?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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