X-Git-Url: https://git.p6c8.net/policy-templates.git/blobdiff_plain/1bdcecd2e02effa457474e56dc82fb6cf6fda4d2..7b73c131c49330fde2d4a76aa42864216510708a:/mac/README.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/mac/README.md b/mac/README.md index 486f94b..ca56ca6 100644 --- a/mac/README.md +++ b/mac/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -**IMPORTANT**: These files are in active development along with the policies in Firefox. To get the policy information that corresponds to a specific release, go to https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/releases. - -Starting with Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4, Firefox supports configuration files on macOS. +**IMPORTANT**: To use enterprise policies on macOS, you must set the `EnterprisePoliciesEnabled` policy. An example plist file with all options is available here: @@ -19,14 +17,14 @@ For example, this policy: } ``` which would be set in the plist file like this: -```plist - Homepage - - URL - http://example.com - +```xml +Homepage + + URL + http://example.com + ``` -As correctly writing nested values with the `defaults` command can be hard, Firefox also supports writing nested values by separating them with `__`, like this: +Correctly writing the nested value with the `defaults` command can be hard, so you can flatten the keys by separating them with `__`, like this: ```bash sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox Homepage__URL -string "http://example.com" ``` @@ -34,3 +32,8 @@ Before any command line policies will work, you need to enable policies like thi ```bash sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox EnterprisePoliciesEnabled -bool TRUE ``` +If you want to set user specific policies, use ~/Library without sudo: +```bash +defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox EnterprisePoliciesEnabled -bool TRUE +defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox Homepage__URL -string "http://example.com" +```