USBCTL(1)

📦 version 1.2, in arch rolling

💖 USBCTL(1) — the usbctl manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the usbctl manual ✨ this is your cute little control room for USB device and protection settings, and yes, it’s giving very much “I know my way around a kernel” energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

usbctl — Linux-hardened deny_new_usb control 💻✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

usbctl [COMMAND]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Control usb device and protection settings. that’s the whole mission, no cap 🫶

💅 COMMANDS 💅

here’s the command menu, bestie — every single one is iconic in its own way:

  • protect, disable, off — disallow new usb devices (protected) 🔒
  • unprotect, enable, on — allow new usb devices (unprotected) 🔓
  • temporary, temp, tmp — temporarily disable protection (default 60 sec) ⏳
  • check — exit with 1 if usb is unprotected 🚨
  • status — print current protection status 📋
  • list, ls — list currently connected usb devices 🔌
  • log — display usb events in the kernel ring buffer 🪵
  • version — display version information and exit 👑

👑 VERSION 👑

1.2 — that’s the version, bestie 💖

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

the repo lives right here:

https://github.com/anthraxx/usbctl

Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. 🐛💬

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

  • Levente Polyak
  • kpcyrd

xoxo, the usbctl manual 💖 — version 1.2, dated 07/24/2018, USBCTL(1) — muah 💋

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