[K12OSN] Firefox Default Home Page

[Peter Scheie]

I made all the students' bookmarks.html and prefs.js symlinks to the teacher's 
files, set the owner to be root and read-only for everyone else, which allowed 
the teacher to add bookmarks, etc., for everyone.  This was a year or two ago, 
but I don't recall there being any problems, and the teachers sure liked it.

Peter

Doug Simpson wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a symbolic link for that file in the skel and then every user that gets the skel will get the symbolic link pointing to a file that you can edit as needed to set things how you want them.
>  Set the actual file that the link points to to read only so they can't change it.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> De Queen Public Schools
> De Queen, AR
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> 
>>>> "Mel Wade" <mel at melwade.com> 1/25/2008 10:00 AM >>>
> I know we have batted this topic around before, but I'm really needing to
> find an final solution.
> 
> In my lab it is really important that we lock the Firefox home page so that
> we can supply links to the services of our library for our students. So far
> my understanding is that I can create a skel file that would set the
> beginning preference for users but then they can change them after that.
> 
> Would a cron task correct any user change?
> 
> Is there any way we can create a lockable file that all users point to for
> this information?
>