USBAUTH(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet usbauth-notifier — it's the Notifier for USB Firewall that you use with desktop environments 💖 it literally just sits there being the cute little messenger so your desktop can talk to the USB firewall, no cap 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

usbauth-notifier

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, she's low maintenance 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ — this program is installed with the SUID bit set. and the way it works is that usbauth-notifier will call it to call the usbauth firewall with superuser rights. it's giving permission slip signed by the principal, fr fr 👑

Example call:

usbauth-npriv allow/deny DEVNUM PATH

and then this program calls:

/usr/sbin/usbauth allow/deny DEVNUM PATH

but only if the caller is:

/usr/bin/usbauth-notifier

so yeah, it's got that "who's asking?? 🤨" energy built in. if you're not the exact right caller, no superuser rights for you, periodt 💀

bestie note: the allow/deny, DEVNUM and PATH bits get passed straight through — those are literally the words used in the call, so don't go renaming them 🙈

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 this was the USBAUTH(1) manual, section 1 (General Commands Manual) — and the footer at the bottom just says USBAUTH(1) again, no version or date in sight, so that's literally all the source info we got 🎀 byeeee, go secure those USBs bestie 💖🦋✨