Re: [opensuse] Force module not to load

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,
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