Review "Webcam manager" version 1 - GNOME Shell Extensions

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Webcam manager

A manager for the webcam. With this extension you can enable or disable the webcam from GNOME Shell. This extension load or unloads the module uvcvideo from the Linux Kernel. To enable or disable the webcam. Simple and easy.

Extension Homepage: https://www.atareao.es/aplicacion/webcam-manager

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Previous Reviews on this Version

Meng Zhuo active September 25, 2018

sudo seems danger here and most of default users won't have "password free" sudo. Could you find a way that probe modules without sudo ?

atareao posted a review September 28, 2018

I don't know any other way to disable the webcam. But if you set the /etc/sudoers with username ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/modprobe -av uvcvideo, /sbin/modprobe -rv uvcvideo username only can load and unload uvcvideo module on the Linux Kernel. He/she can't do anything more Probably it isn't the best solution but I don't know any one better Thanks.

ewlsh rejected October 18, 2020

ewlsh posted a review October 18, 2020

Because you have a newer version with pkexec (I verified it works) I'm retroactively rejecting this due to the sudo usage.