On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Phil Brutsche <p...@optimumdata.com> wrote:
> a) I have to learn enough JS to do it
Well, I've already had to do that to do things like configure our
proxy auto-configure script, which MSIE uses as well.
> b) I need to have the JS query a database of some kind ...
I know I've seen mention of LDAP. More simply, you could just look
at an environment variable. For example:
var foo = getenv("GROUP");
if (foo == "students") {
lockPref ("proxy.http", "whatever.example.com");
} else {
...
}
> ... hope it's sufficiently documented
Yah. I won't disagree that this stuff isn't as well documented as
it could be. A lot of stuff is scattered about blogs and web forums
and archives of lists like this one.
> c) That I even need to go through that much trouble to begin with.
Well, it has to be done *somehow*. Group Policy didn't magically do
anything for my network; I had to go through the trouble of learning,
planning, configuring, documenting, and managing it. In particular,
management of Group Policy is kind of a heavyweight problem. With
plain old text files, I can use comments in the files, stick the files
in RCS, and be done. So there's advantages and disadvantages to both
approaches.
-- Ben
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