2 Authorizing (or not) your USB devices to connect to the system
4 (C) 2007 Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Intel Corporation
6 This feature allows you to control if a USB device can be used (or
7 not) in a system. This feature will allow you to implement a lock-down
8 of USB devices, fully controlled by user space.
10 As of now, when a USB device is connected it is configured and
11 its interfaces are immediately made available to the users. With this
12 modification, only if root authorizes the device to be configured will
13 then it be possible to use it.
17 Authorize a device to connect:
19 $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/DEVICE/authorized
23 $ echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/DEVICE/authorized
25 Set new devices connected to hostX to be deauthorized by default (ie:
28 $ echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/authorized_default
32 $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/authorized_default
34 By default, Wired USB devices are authorized by default to
35 connect. Wireless USB hosts deauthorize by default all new connected
36 devices (this is so because we need to do an authentication phase
40 Example system lockdown (lame)
41 -----------------------
43 Imagine you want to implement a lockdown so only devices of type XYZ
44 can be connected (for example, it is a kiosk machine with a visible
50 for host in /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
52 echo 0 > $host/authorized_default
55 Hookup an script to udev, for new USB devices
57 if device_is_my_type $DEV
59 echo 1 > $device_path/authorized
63 Now, device_is_my_type() is where the juice for a lockdown is. Just
64 checking if the class, type and protocol match something is the worse
65 security verification you can make (or the best, for someone willing
66 to break it). If you need something secure, use crypto and Certificate
67 Authentication or stuff like that. Something simple for an storage key
70 function device_is_my_type()
72 echo 1 > authorized # temporarily authorize it
73 # FIXME: make sure none can mount it
74 mount DEVICENODE /mntpoint
75 sum=$(md5sum /mntpoint/.signature)
76 if [ $sum = $(cat /etc/lockdown/keysum) ]
78 echo "We are good, connected"
80 # Other stuff so others can use it
87 Of course, this is lame, you'd want to do a real certificate
88 verification stuff with PKI, so you don't depend on a shared secret,
89 etc, but you get the idea. Anybody with access to a device gadget kit
90 can fake descriptors and device info. Don't trust that. You are