Password protected profile

[spanakop]

I help to manage a school so any way to manage the laptops remotely is a great help. Having the ability to create a new profile that my school uses is brilliant, because I can manage the settings, bookmarks and add-ons, likewise, being able to see my own stuff on the school browsers is very handy sometimes for my own bookmarks and add-ons.

Rather than delete and re-create my profile, is there a way to password protect a profile so it can't be activated by another user?

[Noitidart]

Thank you @spanakop for your topic! I actually started some initial work on this just last month and it is absolutely possible. I started brain storming some names over here, what do you think would be a good addon name? Any of your own ideas would be totally welcome:

https://gist.github.com/yajd/61b582c66cd6dd506c1a

These are the related articles in my research to create this addon: https://gist.github.com/yajd/9697a046abb48ebad203

[Noitidart]

Thanks to a friend from IRC (@Archaeopteryx) he found this addon: https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/profilepassword-en.html#PPFF

I didn't get a chance to check this addon out, it may be defeated by starting in safe mode. In the version we develop next we should keep that in mind.

[spanakop]

Hi, thanks for getting back to me. Good to know you were already looking into this.

Looking at the names you have already, I like ProfiLock

Will this be a separate add-in or part of the existing profile manager app you have?

[Noitidart]

Seperate addon as it is very different at least on the inner workings. :)