allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:

>In article <bina9f$mmd$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tim Love) writes:
>> We have Mozilla 1.4a (and HP's latest mozilla offering) on our system.
>> How can we set up either of these so that naive first-time users can
>> have proxy settings etc appropriately set for them? For Netscape4 we
>> use a perl wrapper to give each user some standard initial settings,
>> but this seems hard to do with Mozilla.

>this is an unofficial response.

>you can edit the files under /opt/mozilla/defaults/profile
>since all of these are copied to a new user's profile the first
>time they execute mozilla. if there isn't already a prefs.js
>in there you can just create one and copy the proxy setting lines
>from your own prefs.js file.
>--
I copied my prefs.js file there and removed all (and only) the entries that
mentioned my file-space. Running HP's mozilla, a new user ends up with an 8
line prefs.js (no proxy line) instead of the 277 line original.