On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Dowdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, i'm just now becoming aware of "Policy Manager", and having been using > AutoConfig since the Netscape Mission Control Desktop MCD days (loooong > ago), i am concerned about what this entails for those of us who > predominantly support Linux (aka "Non-Windows") environments. (i get the > impression that Policy Engine will deprecate AutoConfig entirely at some > point?) > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment > is the first page i find when searching, and while it indicates there's a > JSON file for this, JSON certainly can't be used (AFAIK) for > dynamic/runtime-variant configurations. (e.g. setting preferences based > upon conditionals in the environment (envvars, client IP subnets, user, > etc) using code.) > > How can we have Policies which are situationally-aware? Like if a laptop > moves between internal corporate networks and outside coffee shops, the > policy should be able to adapt. Will Policies be mergeable/prioritizable/ > dynamic? > > So, i see moving to a JSON policies file as a step down from having a JS > engine in 'mozilla.cfg'/autoconfig. Am i missing something? > If you've been using Autoconfig since the early days, you probably only use lockPref/pref/defaultPref, so you have nothing to worry about. Any changes we make to Autoconfig are about removing the fact that it was accidentally changed at some point to allow access to system globals. As far as your ideas about adapting policies, we're in the very early phases of putting this stuff together (especially on Linux), so we're looking at best ways to do things. Linux especially doesn't seem to have any standard management. We're open to any ideas folks have about how to do this stuff. Your thoughts about environment variables is great. Mike > > thanks, > --stephen > > -- > Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL > 303.497.2869 - [email protected] - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~ > sdowdy/ > >
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