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- 29 Jan 2019, 13:31
- Forum: Software
- Topic: Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6471
Re: Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
Hi Dirk, thanks for your message. I tried both approaches: first, using udev to disable "usbhid" and second, blacklisting the driver "usbhid" in /etc/modprobe.d. In addition, I also tried blacklisting "usbcore" via modprobe, which "usbhid" depends on in my des...
- 28 Jan 2019, 15:58
- Forum: Software
- Topic: Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6471
Re: Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
Hi Dirk, thank you for your quick reaction! We already thought about powering down the USB ports. However, as far as I understood, this is not possible without also powering down the ethernet ports. Am I correct? Since we strictly need the ethernet ports, this is no solution if they cannot be powere...
- 28 Jan 2019, 14:34
- Forum: Software
- Topic: Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6471
Disable USB human interface drivers and USB storage driver
Hi there, for security reasons, I would like to disable the use of USB keyboards/mouses as well as USB storage devices (thumb drive, external harddisk, ...). On a standard debian system, I would simply disable the kernel modules (aka drivers) "usbhid" and "usb_storage". However, ...