[K12OSN] Locking Down Firefox

[Brian Chivers]

Have a look at

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/

It makes locking down Firefox really easy, you just create you .xpi file 
& install it as a global extension, works a dream on Windows, not tried 
it on Linux yet.

Brian


R. Scott Belford wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> You can make the prefs owned by root (or another user that students
>> can't log in as) and world readable but not world writeable.
>
> Thanks, James.  It already is.
>
>
>   File: `/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/greprefs/all.js'
>   Size: 61067           Blocks: 128        IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: 902h/2306d      Inode: 3718157     Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2006-10-03 17:24:23.000000000 -1000
> Modify: 2006-10-03 17:21:00.000000000 -1000
> Change: 2006-10-03 17:21:00.000000000 -1000
>
>
> I reckon that I can customize each ~/home/ file, but this is not 
> sysadmin friendly for a multitude of users.  I do not have scripting 
> skills.  As it stands, a savvy kid and go edit/preferences and set his 
> connection settings for a direct connection to the Internet thus 
> circumventing the above file.  To get to nakedness on the Internet, 
> gets get savvy pretty fast.
>
> --scott
>
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