Brian, The problem the original poster was pointing out is that you can change Mozilla settings "on the fly" so that locking the prefs file will not prevent users from changing settings for the current session, it will only prevent them from changing the start-up prefs.
You have to lock the prefs file, hack the source to remove the about:prefs function and the Prefererences from the menu Brian Payst wrote: > > I've had luck with making the prefs.js file a symlink to a file owned by > root, writeable only by root, and located in another prt of the file system. > > One of the issue with Mozilla is it wants to own some of the files > (bookmarks.html for instance) and will create new ones if it can't find > writeable versions in the profile. It seems prefs.js does not fall under > this and it works fine. > > Holden Hao wrote: > > >>Yes, the knowledgeable user can bypass by changing settings after the > >>browser is running. I don't know of any fix for this, but I > >>haven't pursued that angle. > > > > > > Would it not be possible to lock the preference file by changing file ownership > > and removing the write permission? > > > > Holden > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > -- > Brian Payst, MS > Director of Technology & Systems Support > Division of Student Affairs > The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > voice: (919) 962-1469 fax: (919) 962-5241 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
