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Good morning fellow Jamfers...



Having a problem getting a trusted certificate into Firefox for an existing account (I already know how to get it to update when a new Firefox profile is created).



Am able to get it into the keychain, but since Firefox creates a unique profile name for each user, cannot get Casper to replace the file in the proper directory.



We are not authenticating to a source yet (so only local logins) so the $3 parameter doesn't appear to produce a result.



The script works running locally on the system - the line I'm having a problem with is:



cd $HOME"$ffprofdir"



Since Casper runs as root, it's changing over the the HOME directory for the root user, not the logged in user. Jamf suggested copying the script locally and having a policy launch it locally using something like:



su -l $3 -c "sh /path/to/scrip.sh"



OR compile it in a DMG and launch the script like:



su -l <username> -c "sh /path/to/scrip.sh"



Neither of these worked. Any help is greatly appreciated!



Thanks in advance,



Nick LaTronica
East Brunswick Public Schools

I would start here: http://mike.kaply.com/category/mozilla/. We have used this blog to figure out how to do a lot of customizations to Firefox. In theory you can create a config file (which is really just javascript) that is executed each time the user launches Firefox. Your config file would either check for all necessary certs or just re-add them automatically. That way the install runs as the user each time and you can just push out updates as components of Firefox.

user=`ls -la /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4`

sudo -u $user cp *sourcefile* /Users/$user/Library/Application Support/Firefox/etc/etc


Something like that should get you in the ballpark to find the logged in user and copy it into their folder.

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