NAME

       usbguard-notifier - provides user-friendly notifications for USBGuard

SYNOPSIS

       usbguard-notifier [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       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

       -w, --wait
           Wait until an active IPC connection is estabilished.

       -d, --debug
           Enable debug mode.

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       usbguard-notifier-cli(1), usbguard(1)

BUGS

       If you find a bug in this software or if you’d like to request a feature to be implemented, please file a
       ticket at https://github.com/Cropi/usbguard-notifier/issues/new.

AUTHOR

       USBGuard Notifier was written by Zoltán Fridrich and Attila Lakatos.

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.

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