How to enable selective USB storage device and keep others disabled?

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Issue

  • How would we disable all usb-storage devices by default, and then only enable those we specify
  • I created a udev rule to only allow usb devices on an approved whitelist. However devices on the whitelist are still being blocked.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • udev

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