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I have a inbuilt camera and I want to change camera access for Ubuntu! In Windows I can simply go to privacy > Camera and turn access off! but How to do it in Ubuntu?

Edit : I found a way to disable camera temporally

To disable camera temporally - sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo

To enable it - sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Hirusha
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This can be done via the Applications tab in "Settings" for applications that have specifically requested permission to access the camera. Chromium is a good example of this:

Chromium Permissions

However, a lot of applications that can use the camera, such as OBS Studio, do not provide an option that is available through Settings. Instead, you need to disable the camera globally via dconf Editor:

dconf Editor

If you do not already have dconf Editor on your system, you can install it via Terminal like this:

sudo apt install dconf-editor

Hope this gives you what you need.

  • Yes this helped me but i don't see a option like Applications in Settings! I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – Hirusha Feb 22 '21 at 03:15