How to disable USB for storage devices in Suse?

gnsxhj · December 15, 2010, 7:57am

Hello folks, for some confidential reason, I need to disable the USB to access the storage devices in Suse11.2, but I still need two USB for the mouse and keyboard. Anyone knows?
Thanks a lot in advance!

pludi · December 15, 2010, 8:10am

Add the module usb-storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist like this

cat >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist << EOF
blacklist usb-storage
EOF

This should block only USB storage devices, while leaving USB HIDs alone.

gnsxhj · December 16, 2010, 7:44am

pludi:

Add the module usb-storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist like this
cat >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist << EOF
blacklist usb-storage
EOF
This should block only USB storage devices, while leaving USB HIDs alone.

Thanks for your replay! I have tried your suggestion, but it seems it doesn't work. By the way, the OS I am using is Suse11.2.
In RedHat I just rename the file

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/storag/usb-storage.ko

then it works, but in Suse11.2 I can't find such file in the corresponding directory.
Anyone has some other way? Thanks!

okhawaja · May 13, 2011, 9:28am

set a registery key...id post you the link to it but since I dont have enough posts I cant...but you can google it