USBAUTH(1)
π NAME π
okay so bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual and the star of the show is:
usbauth-notifier β Notifier for USB Firewall to use with desktop environments π¦
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
usbauth-notifier
that's it. no flags, no args, no chaos. she just runs π
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
so like, this is a notifier for the usbauth firewall β you know, the thing that protects you against BadUSB attacks ππ. and the way it works is very main character: the user could manually allow or deny interfaces of USB devices. yes bestie, YOU get to decide. you're the gatekeeper. iconic behavior honestly π
now here's the part you literally cannot skip:
- Every user that wants use the notifier must be added to the
usbauth-notifiergroup. π«Ά like, no group, no notifier. that's the vibe check and you did not pass it yet. - To get notifications, at least one
usbauthrule must be specified. π zero rules = zero notifications = you sitting there wondering why nothing is popping up. not a glitch, just the rules.
ngl these two are the whole personality of this page, so don't come for me when you forget the group and nothing happens π
π and that's the whole page π
she's short, she's sweet, she lives in the General Commands Manual under the name USBAUTH(1), and there's no version or date stamped on this one, so that's all we got bestie πβ¨ go add yourself to that group fr fr π¦πΈ
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- debian trixie: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1+b1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- fedora 43: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-8.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- fedora 44: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-9.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- opensuse-leap 16.0: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-bp160.1.12 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- opensuse-leap 16.0: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-bp160.1.12 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- opensuse-leap 16.0: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-bp160.1.12 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- opensuse-leap 16.0: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-bp160.1.12 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu jammy: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu noble: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1build2 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu questing: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1build2
- ubuntu resolute: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1build3 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: usbauth-notifier 1.0.4-2.1build3 Β· GPL-2.0-only
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