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Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.
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Great article! This is very useful information!
JJ, It seems that Ubuntu distribution versions after 18.04 no longer use the script. Instead, the USB ID file is now maintained by the package "usb-ids". The following command will check for updates.
# apt --only-upgrade install usb.ids
The comments of the file do mention that the latest version can be obtained from http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids, so it is possible to manually update the file. I'll leave this with the obligatory "At your own risk" warning though.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.