Closed
Bug 195528
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Mass installation, custom configuration, Where is the documentation/tools to deploy Mozilla in a working enviornment?
Categories
(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 226876
People
(Reporter: alpeterson, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Build Identifier: Linux Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 at an internet cafe, there are an arbitrary number of ltsp (linux terminal server package?) clients all of the computers are left logged in as guest# where # corresponds to their terminal number. The problem lies when updating the guest account image, and distributing it to all of the guest acocunts. Now, we have to edit every single user by hand to make it consistant We'd like ways to make changes once, and have them change to all of the accounts. We have ways of cloning accounts... but Mozilla doesn't seem to work when we copy it's settings across the user accounts. I didn't see a bug on this, so I'm creating a report. are some configuration files compressed or something? are there tools to make this easy? We're using RedHat8 We're using Mozilla 1.21 we're using LTSP we also reset the user account at every logout. (delete the home directory, put it all back in fresh and new from a targz) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.find all instances of account name 2.replace it with 2ndaccount name 3.chown /change group... no worky Actual Results: I'm actually reporting this for somebody else, I've been told that it doesn't work. Expected Results: accounts all have the same setup with an easy configure and then clone account c ommand.
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Comment 1•21 years ago
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Darn it, This isn't a browser thing... it's a chrome thing... or something like that. ah, it's apperantly already classified as documentation. yay.
Reporter: I do think it is a browser thing. At least, at this point, documentation alone may not be the issue. General functionality issues like this are probably best assigned to Browser by default. Assigning to default owner for Browser. If this is genuinely a doc bug it will make its way back to the Doc product.
Assignee: rudman → asa
Component: User → Browser-General
Product: Documentation → Browser
QA Contact: rudman → asa
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 3•21 years ago
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The problem is most likely that the ~/.mozilla/appreg file contains hardcoded full paths to the profile. Aaron, does copying an account and then editing the paths in this (binary) file appropriately work?
Comment 4•21 years ago
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as for editing appreg/registry.dat, http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/ might be helpful
Comment 5•21 years ago
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http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=avqlk3%24eap4%40ripley.netscape.com related: bug 66259 what should we do w/ this bug? resolve as duplicate of another bug? or send it over to documentation as d11n request bug?
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Comment 6•21 years ago
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Thanks for your help. That comment about copying the home dir did get me started. I'm now using MozillaFirebird exclusively, so the following outline is for that.. Also included: a couple mass deployment feature ideas... that may or may not get moved to seporate bugs. A reminder, Mass Deployment == for multi user systems and for distributions. ************* Basically, I need to know eactly what files to copy from the users ~/.pheonix/alfjkksafjlkjdsskjf/ directory (or Application Data/pheonix ) to the %InstallDir%/MozillaFirebird/default/profile/US/ directory ********************************** What I do/learned since I posted this bug: an outline of what the documentation could be. (Install MozillaFirebird) (backup) move my .pheonix directory to .pheonixREAL start firebird (configure it with saner settings...)(for public computers) like turn off password remembering and form filling, make history expire in one day, make cookies work only for that session, make them only readable from host that gave them (I love about:config ) Specifically: (familiarization --most people came from windows unix prefs have lots to be desired) set it to how users are used to it (like windows) I flip the scroll bar so when the mouse is moved off of it, the page goes back to where the scrolling started. deal with the dom.disable stuff middlemouse is made so that middle clicking on tab closes it like it should, rather than pasting. (make bookmark toolbar be usefull for end users) links to hotmail and yahoo, a news folder , a games folder, a link to google and our home page ) (install extensions) copy image (doesn't seem to work yet for anything that I've tried) trivial (configure arrangement) move bookmarks to the same level as File Edit... get rid of bookmark toolbar add the go button add the printer button add text increase and decrease (I need to figure out how to set mime types so) (install plugins) Flash (shockwave if on windows) Java mplayer-plugin (copy) copy all the files except for the cache and the other one with the same extension. from ~/.pheonix/laksfjksajfl/profile ?? to the installdir/default ... on my system its: /opt/MozillaFirebird/defaults/profile/US/ and then I move my temp homedir to ./pheonixTEMPLATE and start MozillaFirebird for testing... if it works... I quit and move my setup back. (deploy for new accounts) create new accounts and let them login... they get a new .pheonix dir when they start.. (or I just delete all the .pheonix directories from our guest accounts, then then get recreated, and I run the script to save those accounts... (we reset the accounts after every use) ************** Enhansement in actuall code/ not documentation Maybe a "configure mode" would be sweet... example: as a regular user: MozillaFirebird --configure_for_system_default loads up... edit it, install extensions and whatnot The ability to choose a Browser Behavior mode on first login would be super! like kde does on first login... ask if the user would like preferences like unix, or windows, ask how much the user wants to lock down browsing history (paranoid, normal, convinient) ask how much control the user wants to grant the web pages over the browser window: (none , barely always exitable , normal , a little bit of movement ok , blocked ) or such... that way the distribution doesn't have to customize the browser for everybody. I
Comment 7•21 years ago
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This certainly isn't a Browser bug. It's either invalid (not a bug) or a documentation RFE.
Comment 8•21 years ago
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reassign and futuring
Assignee: asa → nobody
Component: Browser-General → webmaster@mozilla.org
Product: Browser → mozilla.org
QA Contact: asa → stolenclover
Version: Trunk → other
Comment 9•20 years ago
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duping to a bug with real work *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226876 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Updated•16 years ago
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Product: mozilla.org → Websites
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Updated•12 years ago
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Component: www.mozilla.org → General
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org
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