[Casper] Setting default user items

[Thomas Larkin]

For those of you that want to package and deploy firefox in a  managed
manner, I highly suggest a firefox add on called Public Fox.  Then
create start up items to not allow users to delete their firefox pref
files from the ~/Library/Application\ Support/ directory.  Or you can
script the install to hide that folder after it is created by either
putting a dot in front of the folder name or using the chflags command. 

Public Fox locks down the firefox preferences with a password so that
end users can't change it.  If they delete their app support folder and
relaunch the app I think it goes back to default settings. 

I have packaged that with composer and a few scripts in the past and it
has worked all right.


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>>> "Ramos, Alan (NYC-ME)" <Alan.Ramos at mccann.com> 02/12/09 12:52 PM >>>

Alright,  Using the hints you all have provided I created a mini script
with a single string of code.

jamf setHomePage –feu –fet –ffmstone –mozmstone –homepage
http://fooisfoo.com/

And sent that to my test computer.  As specified in the help I am
covering Firefox with –ffmstone and mozilla with –mozmstone in the
string.  The added argument to change the user template will make the
changes for any new accounts created.

Checking the settings of the test computer reveals the homepage change
was successful!

Now I need to affect the browser default but I don’t see that option-
Applescript is not a very ‘silent’ way to make such changes but I’m not
shy about using it.


On 2/12/09 1:37 PM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:


Given that the command has switches to specifically exclude setting the
preference for Firefox and other browsers, I assume it sets the
preference in all browsers by default (or at least all of the ones
mentioned in the help).

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:35 PM, enrique silberg •
<enrique.silberg at yr.com> wrote:

This is what I have set


jamf setHomePage -feu -fet -homepage https://yahoo.com// 


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