# Configure sign-in enforcement — Mac: Configuration profiles method (recommended)

> Configuration profiles provide the most secure enforcement method for Mac, as they're protected by Apple's System Integrity Protection.

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## Knowledge

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Configuration profiles provide the most secure enforcement method for Mac, as they're protected by Apple's System Integrity Protection.

The payload is a dictionary of key-values. Docker Desktop supports the following keys

allowedOrgs: Sets a list of organizations in one single string, where each organization is in lowercase only and is separated by a semi-colon. overrideProxyHTTP: Sets the URL of the HTTP proxy that must be used for outgoing HTTP requests. overrideProxyHTTPS: Sets the URL of the HTTP proxy that must be used for outgoing HTTPS requests. overrideProxyExclude: Bypasses proxy settings for the specified hosts and domains. Uses a comma-separated list. overrideProxyPAC: Sets the file path where the PAC file is located. It has precedence over the remote PAC file on the selected proxy. overrideProxyEmbeddedPAC: Sets the content of an in-memory PAC file. It has precedence over overrideProxyPAC.

Overriding at least one of the proxy settings via Configuration profiles will automatically lock the settings as they're managed by Mac.

Create a file named docker.mobileconfig and include the following content

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```xml
   &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
   &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt;
   &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt;
   &lt;dict&gt;
      &lt;key&gt;PayloadContent&lt;/key&gt;
      &lt;array&gt;
         &lt;dict&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadType&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;com.docker.config&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadVersion&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;integer&gt;1&lt;/integer&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadIdentifier&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;com.docker.config&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadUUID&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;eed295b0-a650-40b0-9dda-90efb12be3c7&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadDisplayName&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;Docker Desktop Configuration&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadDescription&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;Configuration profile to manage Docker Desktop settings.&lt;/string&gt;
            &lt;key&gt;PayloadOrganization&lt;/key&gt;
            &lt;string&gt;Your company name&lt;/str
``` …

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