disable USB drive for guest acc.

[flex567]

Is it possible to disable all USB drives for non-admin(guest) user accounts? I have linux mint 17.1 ?

[UltimateCat]

You could restrict that user from belonging to a certain group.

For example on my Mint 17 my user has privileges to the following groups.



adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare


If I'm not mistaken you would just not give the user privileges to the plugdev (think that's usb) and that way a guest wouldn't be able to use the usb ports.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=44710

http://linux.die.net/man/1/chmod

[flex567]

when I type this in terminal I get:
adm: command not found

[Holger_Gehrke]

That was no command, it was the output of one, the 'groups' command specifically. It lists the groups a user is a member of. So to remove the user 'guest' from the 'plugdev' group, you'd get his current list of group memberships with


groups guest

and then change the user with usermod


usermod guest -G "replace this with a comma separated list of groups 'guest' is part of"

[coffeecat]

Thread moved to Mint sub-forum.

[flex567]

when I type: groups guest

I get: guest : guest nopasswdlogin