[stevesnj]

I am a teacher at a high school and out printing shop has 20 iMac Intels 20" and the teacher there wants to disable the Optical drive and Built in camera. Any app or an other way to do this? The students have a restricted user login.

[awaspaas]

Here's the camera part: Re: disable isight camera

[peeb]

A tube of super-glue will disable the optical drive pretty well.

[mfbernstein]

The most complete way to disable the optical drive is to remove the driver for the device (or move it to another location, so it can be restored if need be).

Try moving /System/Library/Extensions/IODVDStorageFamily.kext and /System/Library/Extensions/IOCDStorageFamily.kext to someplace outside Extensions. Then delete /System/Library/Extensions/Extensions.kextcache and reboot

(Note that if this doesn't work, you can restore the status quo ante by putting the two kexts back in their original directory, and running 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility)

[peeb]

Surely there must be some Unix goodness to disable it in certain accounts?