Re: Default new user setup

Subject: Re: Default new user setup

From: Scott Russell <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:33:38 -0400

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Alex,

If you're working from the client end, you can pre-populate "/System/Library/User Templates/English.lproj" with a hierarchy of what you'd like the default home folder to look like. If you need to know how to do this from the server side, someone savvier than me will have to respond. :) But I'm guessing you could "retrofit" machines already in the field by rolling your settings into a package and deploying it via ARD. Or you could use some kind of server-side script to copy in the required plsits.

Best wishes,

Scott

Dr. Scott Russell

IT Support Engineer

Arts & Letters Computing, Distributed Support Services,

Office of Information Technologies, University of Notre Dame

Instructor of Horn, University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College

Assistant Horn, South Bend Symphony Orchestra

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574-631-7021

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On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Alex White wrote:

Hi,

We've been trying to find a way to have defaults set for new users that go beyond the capability of presets: things like preferences, Finder views, etc. Basically everything that we could want to customize within ~/*. What seems most sensible would be to design some sort of generic User, or at least populate a skeletal home folder with only those files that we want to be put in new user homes. At some point in the past, several OSes ago, we had such a thing, but we can't remember what it was called, nor where it lived.

Does anybody have any idea of whether this is something easily doable? Thanks!

-Alex White
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