On 30/01/2009 13:48, Alistair Crust wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 17:44 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone knew how to lock down the settings on Firefox >> on Ubuntu 8.04? >> >> Basically I'm nearly done setting up an LTSP Server and I want to make >> sure that no one who logs on can fiddle with the settings. I've got >> Tinyproxy and Dansguardian installed and working but only if I manually >> specify the proxy settings. I found something about entering some >> settings in /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg which I have entered (details >> here: http://m.linuxjournal.com/article/9044) but I'm finding I can >> enable and disable the Firefox proxy settings and alter the rest of the >> settings as I please. >> >> I did try Firehol to force the proxy transparently but it stopped the >> LTSP clients from booting unless I enabled a whole lot of ports on the >> Firehol configuration (I got so far but got stuck on the nbd ports). >> >> Just wondering if anyone knows how to do this? >> >> Ta, >> >> Rob >> >> >> > Hi Rob, > > I recall seeing a posting within the last 2/3 months on either the > ltsp-discuss mailing list or the edubuntu-users list that give you > instructions on how to lock firefox down. > > If I remember correctly you can do it by placing the values you want to > lock in a text file, encoding it using Rot13 and specifying some global > settings that force Firefox to read that file (It greys out all the > options for the user, so the user can't change anything or add their own > settings in their ~./mozilla/firefox/*) > > I've used this method successfully in school and at our boarding house, > I just cant remember the specifics off the top of my head. > > If your still stuck next week drop me a line and I'll see if I can dig > the mails out for you. > > Kind regards > Alistair > > Please email first, I may not be in my office and available for calls > Thanks Alistair, I'll do a bit more digging.
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