{"id":433872,"date":"2010-03-16T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=42440"},"modified":"2010-03-16T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:57:02","slug":"how-to-create-a-custom-user-template-in-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433872","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Create a Custom User Template in Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Setting up your OS to your liking can be an art for some. What if you need to set up Snow Leopard to present every user with the same look and settings? By following these steps you can have every user who logs into the machine receive the same look, feel and preferences that you desire. What we’ll be doing is creating a new user, setting it up to look how we want, then copying the settings so every new user will get those preferences.<\/p>\n

Setting Everything Up<\/h3>\n
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  1. Login under your admin<\/strong> account and open up Accounts<\/strong> pane in System Preferences<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the +<\/strong> to create a new Standard<\/strong> user.<\/li>\n
  3. As an example, we’ll use the name\u00a0testuser.
    \n\"\"
    \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Log off and log back in as testuser.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Set everything up the way you want. I customized the Dock, Safari’s home page and the Finder preferences.<\/li>\n
  6. When you are done customizing, log off the testuser<\/strong> account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Copying the Files<\/h3>\n
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    1. Login under your admin<\/strong> account.<\/li>\n
    2. Navigate to the \/System\/Library<\/strong> folder in Finder<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    3. Right-click on the User Template<\/strong> folder and choose Get info<\/strong>.
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    4. By default, you cannot browse this folder. Change the permissions so Everyone<\/strong> has Read & Write<\/strong> permissions.
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    5. Now we can open up the User Template<\/strong> folder & copy<\/strong> the English.lproj<\/strong> folder to your desktop. This will be our backup copy in case we want to restore it back.<\/li>\n
    6. Open up Terminal<\/strong> and navigate to the User Template<\/strong> folder.
      \ncd \/System\/Library\/User Template\/English.lproj<\/code><\/li>\n
    7. Copy<\/strong> the testuser<\/strong> folder over, which will replace the defaults. You may get errors about some files that can’t be replaced. I haven’t seen it cause any issues though.
      \nsudo cp -R ~testuser\/* .<\/code>
      \nsudo cp -R ~testuser\/.* .<\/code><\/li>\n
    8. Change the permissions for the User Template<\/strong> folder back so everyone<\/strong> has No Access<\/strong> again.
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Test it Out<\/h3>\n
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      1. Create a new user to verify everything worked. I used the name testuser2<\/strong>.
        \n\"\"<\/li>\n
      2. Log off as admin<\/strong> and log back in as testuser2<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
      3. You will now see your customized settings. These will be used for all new users created on the system from this point on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Conclusion<\/h3>\n

        To put everything back the way it was, log in as admin<\/strong> and copy the English.lproj<\/strong> backup file on your desktop back to the \/System\/Library\/<\/strong>User Template<\/strong> folder.<\/p>\n

        If you have a lab of Macs but aren’t using Open Directory, this is a nice solution to maintain some control over the OS presentation. This change will only affect new<\/strong> users. It has no effect on existing users, so keep that in mind. If you start getting constant requests for more customizations similar to this, setup a Snow Leopard Server<\/strong> and start using Workgroup Manager<\/strong>. The changes can be much easier to implement but the Server solution has a larger price-tag for that convenience.<\/p>\n

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