Default user settings

[jck]

Hi,

Is there a way to setup osx so that all new user accounts get created with the same settings as an account that i setup as a default? Preferences, desktop icons, etc?

In windows 2000 i can copy any users profile to the default profile. Is there a similar feature or work-around in osx?

Thanks
jck

 

[alexrd]

-Create a default/template user

-Log in as that user and customize

-Copy the template folder to the new user name

-Create the new user.

This should work, but you may have to reverse the last two steps, and you may have to manually change the ownership of the new user's home directory.

(You can also just copy the Library folder from the template user after creating the new account, but then you would defiantely have to fix the ownership. If you do it the way I said above, I think you can trick the system into fixing the ownership for you; doing this as root will probably help).

-alex.

 

[jck]

Thanks for the reply. However to deploy osx in a lab situation, something automatic is needed. Many diiferent users would be logging in at various times thoughout the year.