[WEB4LIB] Re: Netscape profiles vs. logon ID

[mike]

Assuming that you're using Netscape 4.x, those settings are found in the
JavaScript file prefs.js. You can increase your security by writing these
preferences to the workstation each time a user logs as part of a login script.
Settings could be matched to NT groups. The settings in a particular prefs.js
would reflect the group a user belongs to. I'm assuming that NT allows this
user-level control. I'd be surprised if it did not. This approach would also allow
you to centrally handle this at any desktop on the network. Just a thought, a
possible direction.

Mike Nyerges
http://www.canandaigua.k12.ny.us/academy/library/



TMGB wrote:

> I believe your looking for the  -P "profilename"  parameter.  A list of
> Communicator's Command line parameters can be found at
>
> http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/deploymt/options.htm
>
> I don't know if this will work with the stand alone Navigator or not.  The
> command line options are categorized by OS.  There may be a different page for
> Navigator.  I just found the page Friday, what a coincidence.
>
> Thomas
>
> James Klock wrote:
>
> > I have a set of NT 4.0 workstations from which we allow limited access to
> > several subscribed online databases (but NOT to the Internet in general--
> > the filter is based on Netscape's "Manual Proxy Configuration" settings,
> > per Andy Mutch's advice).
> > For reasons having to do with the ADA, we want to allow full internet
> > access to a certain pool of users.  I would think it should be possible to
> > create multiple Netscape user profiles, and to force Netscape to choose a
> > particular profile, without user interaction, based either on a command
> > line variable, or based directly on what account is logged on.
> >
> > Anybody know any way of doing either of these?  Frankly, if I can get
> > Netscape to choose it's profile based on a command line arguement, I can
> > find a workaround from there easily enough...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > James