On Monday 12 February 2007 07:05, Carl Hartung wrote:
/bin/false would sound more logical to a human, but it returns "false" on exit, so modprobe thinks there was an error, and this would interrupt a boot, and/or give annoying error messages in the log
This is what we implement in Finance dept so that users cannot copy data out of the PC using any USB storage device: /etc/modprobe.conf: install usb_storage \ wall "Sorry, no USB storage devices are allowed" \ && /bin/false Make sure we reboot the PC before it takes effect, or unload the module manually: modprobe -r usb_storage HTH, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 3:46pm up 2:35, 2.6.16.21-0.8-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org