[CentOS] way to disable keyboard and mouse ports

David Fletcher centos at fletchersweb.net
Tue Jan 3 23:11:28 UTC 2006


Epoxy resin usually prevents plugs being inserted where you don't want them to 
be.

Dave

On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 22:34, Jerry Geis wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the keyboard and mouse ports?
>
> I have a machine in a public area running an application
> that no-one needs to touch.
>
> However, someone could come up and plug a keyboard in
> it and mouse and be logged in as that user (not root).
>
> Is there a way to disable the mouse and keyboard so
> only remote ssh connections will control the PC if
> changes need to be made.
>
> This would also include any usb device which is fine
> and the PS2 keyboard and mouse.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry

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