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Bug#825302: RFS: usbguard/0.4-2 [ITP]



On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:

> They're there to allow building usbguard on systems without those libraries
> packaged:
> https://dkopecek.github.io/usbguard/blog/2015/USBGuard-on-Ubuntu-14-04

I tend to think users are better served by binary packages or a script
that calls wget ./configure and make than embedded code copies.

> Upstream already agree they shouldn't be used if system packages are
> available: see https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/usbguard/sources/spec
> lines 55-65

Great.

> This is just an example; you can block USB keyboards entirely (but check
> lsusb first, as some physically built-in devices are internally USB), but
> probably can't automatically check whether there's a non-USB keyboard.  You
> can also allow only those devices currently connected (usbguard
> generate-policy).

Thanks for the info.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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