From 03d9f617d95e89259e7d246d74a01a597d3d2e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kaply <345868+mkaply@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:18:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add clarificaton of plist versus mobileconfig. --- mac/README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/mac/README.md b/mac/README.md index 6cd58ea..6559cf3 100644 --- a/mac/README.md +++ b/mac/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ An example plist file with all options is available here: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/org.mozilla.firefox.plist +This plist file is NOT a mobileconfig. It is intended to be input to a tool like Apple Configurator, Profile Manager, Jamf Pro or Intune. For my testing, I use https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile. + +In particular, in a mobileconfig, the configuraton must be nested in ```mcx_preference_settings``. + If you want to set specific options from the command line, we also provide flattened shortcuts to any item that is nested in the plist file. For example, this policy: -- 2.43.0