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I want to disable USB devices based on vendor ID in Linux, and allow only specific devices to be used. How can I do that?

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Do you want to blacklist or whitelist? Different answers might apply. – Karthik T Jan 31 at 5:53
thank you for replying, what is diff b/w them? i want to allow only specif vendor usb's. – subbarao Jan 31 at 5:57
blacklist - block only specific; whitelist - allow only specific. Let me see if I can figure it out now – Karthik T Jan 31 at 5:58
thanks karthik, i need both of them. – subbarao Jan 31 at 6:22

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When you connect a usb device to your PC, a service called udev manages the work of connecting it, enabling the appropriate driver, etc. To do what you need to do, you need to write udev rules to control its behaviour.

You can look at this article for some examples of how to control it. I am afraid I don't know it in enough detail to explain how to achieve what you want particularly, but udev is the answer.

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