[K12OSN] Hardcoding proxy/user setting in mozilla for all users - no script needed

[Pete]

Wilson wrote:

>Is there a way to hardcode the proxy setting to all users? Right now I have
>to manually set the proxy setting (http://192.168.0.254:8080) on all the
>user accounts by logging in. Also, what about cosmetic changes like setting
>the theme to modern and enabling tab browsing? There has to be a better way
>then hard coding it per user. Thanks!
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I have seen a couple posts about perl scripts and settings in /etc/skel etc.
but I believe there is a better way.
Filling out mozilla preferences in such a way that they cannot be 
altered by a user
(grayed out text boxes in the settings windows)

Check out 
http://www.alain.knaff.lu/~aknaff/howto/MozillaCustomization/cgi/byteshf.cgi 
for a detailed explanation.

Make a file in /tmp called locks.txt with the following contents (adjust 
to reflect your settings)

//BEGIN CE prefs

try {

lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.google.ca");
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.7.3");
lockPref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8, ISO-8859-1");
lockPref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
lockPref("prefs.converted-to-utf8", true);
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 1);
lockPref("network.proxy.http", "10.10.10.1");
lockPref("network.proxy.http_port", 8080);
lockPref("security.enable_tls", false);

} catch(e) {
  displayError("lockedPref", e);
}

When this is done go to the above mentioned web site and go to the 
Upload mozilla.txt section, upload the /tmp/locks.txt and hit the 
convert mozilla.txt to mozilla.cfg button.
(byteshift 13)

Note :
//BEGIN CE prefs
Needs to be the first line in this file, spelling and capitalization of 
lockPref is important !

After that save the mozilla.cfg file in the same dir as the current 
mozilla in our case /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3

Done

Have fun

Peter

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