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 -- Alistair Crust <[email protected]> Systems Administrator Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness Lincs PE252QS Tel: 01754610000 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
