From: Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject: Re: Actualized access to /dev/videoX from browsers
To: tech@openbsd.org, Landry Breuil <landry@rhaalovely.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:18:59 +0200

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:56:41 +0200,
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2025/08/21 03:25, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > tech@,
> > 
> > I had noticed that our faq a bit outdated regarding access to /dev/videoX
> > devices from Chromium and Firefox.
> 
> do we actually need to tell users to do anything for chromium?
> more than 7 devices is not that likely.
> 
> can we sync the unveil in firefox to allow up to video7 too?
> 
> users editing the unveil files are preparing a foot-gun.
> 
> 

Very good point.

Right now both browsers support out of the box multiple devices, all which
is created by default.

I think the right way is... nuke this paragraph.

It is irrelevant and suggest very wrong way.


Index: faq/faq13.html
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diff -u -p -r1.228 faq13.html
--- faq/faq13.html	10 Apr 2023 02:55:09 -0000	1.228
+++ faq/faq13.html	21 Aug 2025 10:18:50 -0000
@@ -647,19 +647,6 @@ All the settings can be reverted to thei
 <p>
 Some settings support automatic adjustments if set to a value of "auto."
 
-<h3>Webcam Access in Web Browsers</h3>
-
-Chromium has access to <code>/dev/video</code> by default.
-To allow Chromium to access other video devices, the device paths must be
-added to <code>/etc/chromium/unveil.main</code> and
-<code>/etc/chromium/unveil.utility_video</code>.
-
-<p>
-Firefox has access to <code>/dev/video</code> and <code>/dev/video0</code>
-by default.
-To allow Firefox to access other video devices, the device paths must be
-added to <code>/etc/firefox/unveil.main</code>.
-
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wbr, Kirill