Re: how to enable /disable USB ports

pawanbhardwaj staggered into the Black Sun and said:
sir,

There are a number of ma'ams who read this froup.

I have got a software project: to develop a [program] which is able to
enable/disable [the] USB ports of a single computer

All ports, or individual ports? Disabling all USB ports is relatively
easy, just rmmod ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, and ohci_hcd. Disabling individual
USB ports while leaving other ports active is AFAICT not supported right
now in a transparent way as it's pretty useless. I suppose if you
called hub_port_disable() from a kernel module with appropriate args,
you could disable a port. This could have unintended consequences,
though.

and afterwards in LAN environment.

....huh? If you meant that you want machine A to be able to tell machine
B "turn off {all,some} USB ports" and have machine B actually do that,
that'd require custom code on both machines. It'd also annoy the users
of machine B and be a potential security risk, as the process on machine
B would probably have to run as root. Unless it did "sudo rmmod
ehci_hcd ..." etcetera.

plz guide me how i should start as I am new to Linux.

This is a bad project to start on if you're a complete n00b, unless you
need to disable all USB ports.

--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a
completely unintentional side effect.
--Linus Torvalds
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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