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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

On work machines, it may also be on purpose (IT department having restricted the use of USB storage).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so; there was a procedure for it and we had root access. It just didn't work according to the procedure, nor any of the ones I found online. If I remember correctly, it said to mount sda1 and that didn't work. Another different machine worked with sdb0 or 1. Ended up having to plug a laptop in with a network cable and ftp the files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

/dev/sda1 might have been your computers hard disk, with "sda1" in the instructions being an example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah. If that's not one of the first things IT did when they got hired, then you need a new IT. You seriously can't trust anyone to not plug a random USB into volatile infostructure.

Also, they could do it to prevent theft of their proprietary code and other things that you'd probably need to sign a NDA to even see in the first place.