usbguard-notifier1
Provides user-friendly notifications for usbguard
Usage
usbguard-notifier [OPTIONS]
Overview
USBGuard Notifier is a software framework mainly for detecting usbguard policy modifications as well as device presence changes. The purpose of this project is to create user-friendly notifications in form of quick pop-up messages.
Options
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-w, --wait -
Wait until an active IPC connection is estabilished.
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-d, --debug -
Enable debug mode.
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-h, --help -
Show help.
How to start
In order to make usbguard-notifier work properly, you will need to perform certain actions:
1. Each user who wants to run usbguard-notifier service needs to have sufficient IPC privileges to connect to the usbguard IPC interface. To allow a specific user to listen to the device signals you can use the following command:
$ sudo usbguard add-user USER -d listen
Or you can allow a group of users:
$ sudo usbguard add-user -g GROUP -d listen
2. Now, you need a running usbguard-daemon instance to connect to. Start the usbguard service or restart it if it is already running.
3. After configuring IPC privileges and starting up the usbguard-daemon, the user can now start the usbguard-notifier service:
$ systemctl start --user usbguard-notifier.service
Optionally, the user can enable the usbguard-notifier service to start automatically after the login:
$ systemctl enable --user usbguard-notifier.service
The usbguard-notifier should now be running. Anytime a USB device gets inserted/ejected or allowed/blocked a message will pop up in the user’s graphical interface.
Resources
Main web site: https://usbguard.github.io/
Copying
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Releases
2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.