How to disable USB storage device support

Question

I want to disable a particular USB storage device (a sandisk flash drive). I read somewhere that you can use the .config file. How do i use it to disable that?

Answer 1

First :

You can disable it from Bios setting and make bios password protected .

Second:

You can get rid of all USB devices by disabling kernel support for USB via GRUB.

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8 nousb

Answer 2

The best way is to use udev blacklisting (using the authorized feature in sysfs) so you can be very selective (since you want a specific device). You can find a very interesting article about this here

With .config you could totally disable usbstorage module but this would then make any usb storage not work anymore.

Answer 3

Simply blacklist the kernel driver:

sudo echo "blacklist usb-storage" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

After that, nobody can use a USB memory stick in that computer, but still allows the administrator(s) to manually load the module and use it.

To enable again simply remove the line from the blacklist file.