Re^3: USB interface

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Re^4: USB interface by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:20 UTC
I'm on linux. What I felt is, when the user plugs in USB device, I think it will be automatically mounted somewhere right? If so, I will watch that and I'll execute my script to ask password	[reply]
Re^5: USB interface by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:28 UTC
You might want to start by reading http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re^5: USB interface by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:23 UTC
I think it will be automatically mounted somewhere right? You tell me. If so, I will watch that and I'll execute my script to ask password How will that prevent users from placing and removing files on the device?	[reply]
Re^5: USB interface by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:38 UTC
On my Windows box, I can detect the insertion of a USB stick within 2 seconds of it happening with this one liner: `perl -le "while(1) {print \"USB stick inserted\" if -d 'E:/';sleep 2}"` [download] I guess something similar can be applied to linux. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: USB interface by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2009 at 06:47 UTC
Why use polling when the WMI tells you? The synopsis of DBD::WMI shows an example that detects when a drive gets added/removed. Alternatively, I think I would hook into the dialog that asks "What to do with this device?" whenever a new device is added. But this is all Windows and the question seems to be for Linux...	[reply]
Re^6: USB interface by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2009 at 17:15 UTC
I don't think that's sufficient. You'd have to check more than one drive letter, and I think you're able to mount a USB drive without assigning a letter to it. (I'm not at my Windows system to test it.)	[reply]
Re^5: USB interface by JavaFan (Canon) on Jun 15, 2009 at 09:21 UTC
I'm on linux. What I felt is, when the user plugs in USB device, I think it will be automatically mounted somewhere right? Not on any of my Linux boxes. But it's certainly possible to setup a Linux box that it's done this way. If so, I will watch that and I'll execute my script to ask password If it's automatically mounted, what's to stop the user from copying the file directly using `cp` instead of firing up your program and having to type in a password? I think you should first have a talk with the sysadmin(s) in charge of the boxes this is going to be run on; find out how the boxes are setup; and figure out together how to get your program working. The copying and asking for a password are trivial. Making sure your program is the only way to copy files to a USB device is that hard part, and has nothing to do with Perl (you'd have to solve the same problem if your user interface was written in Python, Java or COBOL).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: USB interface by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2009 at 16:09 UTC
you could change the rights of the users in order to not allow then write directly to the drive, then have an new group which can write to the drive and make your program run sudo on this group, then it will be able to write to the drive.	[reply]