Hi All,
I am running Tiger 10.4.11 in a student lab enviroment, the Macs are bound to Active Directory and Open Directory so student/staff log in with thier AD accounts and Computer settings are managed via Workgroup Manager. This setup is as the Bombich guide's on his website. Server is Tiger 10.4.11
Problem I am having now isn't major but anyways
I would like firefox to be pre-set up (homepage etc) so when the user logs in and runs firefox the homepage is set to our internal student website, doesn't matter if they change it as long as they get this first of all.
With Safari this is easy as there are settings in workgroup manager for homepage, searchpage and this works great. I know that plist files can also be imported into workgroup manager for settings to roll down to all users and also application manifests which are better in Leopard server IIRC
Firefox however doesn't make a "useful" plist from what I can see (homepage settings etc) and wont load and application manifest
I know that Firefox has the ability to make a default profile via the | firefox -profilemanager | switch
I have made a default profile as a test which I stored in /Users/Shared/Fox
This works great for any student that logs in provided the profile is called i.e
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profile /Users/Shared/Fox
The problem here is all users must have full access to the profile and access the same profile. Of course its only a matter of time before students molest the profile, bookmark porn sites, change the homepage etc and the fact that they may have access to other peoples saved passwords.
My next plan was to store the profile in the default user template location (System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj) and therefore a user would get a fresh profile under their home directory which only they could access. The profile could then be called via
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profile $Home/Library/Fox
unfortunately doing this comes up with the error message "only one version of firefox can be run at one time". I have changed permissions but this not worked.
So to sum my question up..... does anyone know how to make Firefox settings roll down to all users on a Mac
I am running Tiger 10.4.11 in a student lab enviroment, the Macs are bound to Active Directory and Open Directory so student/staff log in with thier AD accounts and Computer settings are managed via Workgroup Manager. This setup is as the Bombich guide's on his website. Server is Tiger 10.4.11
Problem I am having now isn't major but anyways
I would like firefox to be pre-set up (homepage etc) so when the user logs in and runs firefox the homepage is set to our internal student website, doesn't matter if they change it as long as they get this first of all.
With Safari this is easy as there are settings in workgroup manager for homepage, searchpage and this works great. I know that plist files can also be imported into workgroup manager for settings to roll down to all users and also application manifests which are better in Leopard server IIRC
Firefox however doesn't make a "useful" plist from what I can see (homepage settings etc) and wont load and application manifest
I know that Firefox has the ability to make a default profile via the | firefox -profilemanager | switch
I have made a default profile as a test which I stored in /Users/Shared/Fox
This works great for any student that logs in provided the profile is called i.e
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profile /Users/Shared/Fox
The problem here is all users must have full access to the profile and access the same profile. Of course its only a matter of time before students molest the profile, bookmark porn sites, change the homepage etc and the fact that they may have access to other peoples saved passwords.
My next plan was to store the profile in the default user template location (System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj) and therefore a user would get a fresh profile under their home directory which only they could access. The profile could then be called via
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --profile $Home/Library/Fox
unfortunately doing this comes up with the error message "only one version of firefox can be run at one time". I have changed permissions but this not worked.
So to sum my question up..... does anyone know how to make Firefox settings roll down to all users on a Mac