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Old 10-04-2010
How to disable services ?

I would like to know how would i disable service which helps mounting of removable devices automatically?

I dont want to disable mounting but i would like to disable automatic mounting of devices.

I would like to do this as security major on one of our production server.
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Old 10-04-2010
Which operating system is the server running?
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Old 10-04-2010
My distribution details.

Quote:
# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: OracleVMserver
Description: Oracle VM server release 2.2.0
Release: 2.2.0
Codename: n/a

Quote:
# uname -a
Linux OFSMUW-VS-61 2.6.18-128.2.1.4.9.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Oct 9 14:57:31 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
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