Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Is there a way to disable the keyboard and mouse ports?
Remember, in UNIX, hardware is _useless_ if it is not bound to a device used by a service.
So remove all relevant entries from /etc/inittab. The mingetty tty entries, Xdm, the keyboard combination traps, etc... Don't start gpm, kudzu, etc... as services either, just to be sure.
That will prevent any use of a keyboard/mouse once Linux boots.
You can even remove any prompt from the bootloader. You can also pass a parameter to set the console to a physically non-existant COM device, or some other dummy port.
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.
Again, hardware is _useless_ if it's not bound to a device which is used by a service. No local ttys, no local access -- other than the console, which can be set to dummy ;->
This would also include any usb device which is fine and the PS2 keyboard and mouse.
Again, hadware is useless if it's not bound to a device which is used by a service.
There are also games you can play with /dev and udev too.