Re: disable isight camera

On Jul 19, 2006, at 4:39 PM, John Matney wrote:

Their official solution is disable the apps in WGM, which of course you cannot do. The solution we received from apple was to take the unit apart and disconnect the camera (its an internal usb camera).

Someone out there is selling a plastic cap you can secure pver the iMac covering the camera. I can’t find their site right now though.

Good luck.

John Matney
World Book

On 7/19/06 2:36 PM, "Brad Schonhorst" <email@hidden> wrote:

We purchased some new intel macs which come with a built in iSight camera. Currently there are at least 3 programs installed by default that directly make use of the camera - PhotoBooth, iMovie, and Quicktime Player. We do not want kids using the cameras but we will need to be able to use iMovie and Quicktime.

I had heard that you could just remove the kernel extension to the camera (/System/Library/Extensions/Apple_iSight.kext) to disable it and after a reboot this seems to have no effect.

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions/Apple_iSight.kext

I thought maybe the extension was just being cached so I tried touching the Extensions folder which supposedly causes the cache files to be recreated at boot:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

and a reboot but no luck.

Tried a bigger hammer and just removed the cache files:

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/*

No luck this time either....my face keeps appearing in Quicktime.

Anyone have any other solutions? I would prefer a software solution, rather than duct tape or super glue :)

Thanks!

-brad

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Brad Schonhorst
Network and Systems Administrator
Village Community School

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