asked on

Enable NTLM SSO for Firefox with Group Policy

My company has a lot of people using Firefox, and we are in the process of deploying several Sharepoint sites. We want to implement a solution that will prevent them from having to enter their active directory credentials in the browser when accessing these Sharepoint sites.

If I go into Firefox about:config > network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris, and add the Sharepoint URLs, then SSO works. The issue is how to do this efficiently across all computers in the organization.

I found a VBScript (URL below) that will add a specified list or URLs to that setting in the prefs.js file, but I need a way to run that VBScript on all computers.

http://sivel.net/2007/05/firefox-ntlm-sso/

I thought about using GPP, but as far as I can tell, that only works for controlling settings that are contained in the registry.

I have previously been doing this with a login script, but the issue with that approach is that I have a lot of remote users who use a software VPN client, so they do not connect to our network until after they have logged into their PC, so they do not run login scripts.

It seems group policy is the answer, but I can't seem to figure out how to get group policy to run a VBS file.

PaulNSW

Try the following

go to \\domain.local\netlogon

copy your vbs script there
create another file, firefoxSSO.bat

and in it have

@echo off
wscript %0\..\your.vbs

Then set the .bat file as the user logon script or startup script

FWeston

ASKER

Paul,

For the script, are you talking about setting it under:

User > Policies > Windows Settings > Scripts

and

Computer > Policies > Windows Settings > Scripts

?

If so, will those run periodically or only at startup / login? The concern I have is that the computer will not have access to the domain controller when it boots up or the user logs in since it is remote.

Thanks.

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

PaulNSW

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

FWeston

ASKER

Hi Paul,

That seems like it will work for folks that are on our corporate network at login, but I don't think this will solve the problem for remote users because they won't be able to access the DC at login.

I know the other user policies update at the predefined group policy refresh intervals, so remote users do get the settings from group policy, it seems now I just need to figure out a way to specify a policy that somehow modifies the prefs.js file without relying on a login script.

I wonder if a logoff script would do it...theoretically they should have access to the network at logoff. I'll test that.