{"id":630,"date":"2014-07-10T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=630"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:26:30","slug":"mac-mavericks-template-user-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/mac-mavericks-template-user-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac &#8211; Mavericks Template User Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my Fall\/Spring 2014 mac images I want to preserve the template user structure as much as possible in order to preserve the KeyChain process.  This, I hope, will remove issues I am having with Chrome being unable to use the logged in user&#8217;s keychain.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than blowing away the system template user entirely and copying in a new user profile as I had done in the past, I am going to attempt to copy in only the preferences files that are needed.  <\/p>\n<p>Setting the desktop image can be done by copying the desktop image I want users to have as root to the system default &#8220;wave.jpg&#8221; file.  With:<br \/>\n<code>bash-3.2# sudo -s<br \/>\nbash-3.2# cd \/Library\/Desktop\\ Pictures\/<br \/>\nbash-3.2# mv Wave.jpg Wave_orig.jpg<br \/>\nbash-3.2# cp \/Users\/labadmin\/Desktop\/desktop_bkgd_logoff_1920.jpg \/Library\/Desktop\\ Pictures\/Wave.jpg<br \/>\nbash-3.2#<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nWebsite reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/26\/mavericks-desktop-background-picture-settings-moved-from-librarypreferencescom-apple-desktop-plist\/\">http:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/26\/mavericks-desktop-background-picture-settings-moved-from-librarypreferencescom-apple-desktop-plist\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unhide the User&#8217;s &#8220;Library&#8221; folder by:<br \/>\n<code>chflags nohidden \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj\/\/Library<\/code><br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/mac-10-7-hidden-user-library-folder\/\">http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/mac-10-7-hidden-user-library-folder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also I am setting up in my pre-image script the following commands:<br \/>\n<code>cp \/Users\/labuser\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.dock.plist \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj\/Library\/Preferences<br \/>\ncp \/Users\/labuser\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.loginitems.plist \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj\/Library\/Preferences<br \/>\ncp \/Users\/labuser\/Library\/Preferences\/com.google.Chrome.plist \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj\/Library\/Preferences<br \/>\ncp \/Users\/labuser\/Library\/Preferences\/org.mozilla.firefox.plist \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj\/Library\/Preferences<\/code><br \/>\nWebsite references:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~jcjb\/docs\/osx_imaging\/\">http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~jcjb\/docs\/osx_imaging\/<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20050316020738829\">http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20050316020738829<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certain applications are putting their license files in the &#8220;labadmin&#8221; account and those are not usable by users.  MathType, Sketchup, etc.  These I am coping to the system template as I find them &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my Fall\/Spring 2014 mac images I want to preserve the template user structure as much as possible in order to preserve the KeyChain process. 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