Sebastien47136
asked on
Locking down FireFox 1.5, Dynamic Local Users
Hi Experts,
I've been racking my brain on this one and all the answers I'm finding are for FireFox 1.0.x which is a bit dated and more importantly...don't seem to be working.
Here is the situation. I work for a school and I'm wanting to roll out FireFox for students to us. There is a catch though. I need to lock several settings in place. Homepage, proxy settings, view passwords, etc. Heck if I could set the settings and disable the "Options" and "About:config" menus I'd be happy.
As most of you know with Dynamic Local Users when a user logs in a copy of the "default user" account is copied to make that user's account. Here's the problem I'm running into. I've got a generic account setup almost the way I like it. (Can't figure out how to lock the homepage.) I copy that profile over to the "default user" account and restart.
Presto change-o everything should be working right? Nope...for some reason the settings I made on the generic account weren't pulled over.
Group Policy make this so much easier with IE, however FireFox doesn't have a detailed enough ADM file to make GroupPolicies effective. (I'd need a bit more than 4 settings. ha...maybe down the line that area will be developed.)
Suggestions?
I've been racking my brain on this one and all the answers I'm finding are for FireFox 1.0.x which is a bit dated and more importantly...don't seem to be working.
Here is the situation. I work for a school and I'm wanting to roll out FireFox for students to us. There is a catch though. I need to lock several settings in place. Homepage, proxy settings, view passwords, etc. Heck if I could set the settings and disable the "Options" and "About:config" menus I'd be happy.
As most of you know with Dynamic Local Users when a user logs in a copy of the "default user" account is copied to make that user's account. Here's the problem I'm running into. I've got a generic account setup almost the way I like it. (Can't figure out how to lock the homepage.) I copy that profile over to the "default user" account and restart.
Presto change-o everything should be working right? Nope...for some reason the settings I made on the generic account weren't pulled over.
Group Policy make this so much easier with IE, however FireFox doesn't have a detailed enough ADM file to make GroupPolicies effective. (I'd need a bit more than 4 settings. ha...maybe down the line that area will be developed.)
Suggestions?
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
No problem
-rich
-rich
ASKER