{"id":45,"date":"2012-01-26T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-01-26T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:49:53","slug":"creating-a-default-user-profile-under-osx-10-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/2012\/01\/26\/creating-a-default-user-profile-under-osx-10-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Default User Profile under OSX 10.X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The system has some presets which are stored in <strong><em>\/System\/Library\/User Template<\/em><\/strong>. Inside this folder you will find subfolders such as <strong><em>English.lproj<\/em><\/strong>, <em><strong>French.lproj<\/strong><\/em> etc. The idea is to create a user as you want it to be and replace the corresponding template with this user&#8217;s home folder contents. If the system language you use is English, then you&#8217;ll replace the English.lproj folder. If your system has another language, you should replace the corresponding language folder.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, create your user, let&#8217;s call it &#8220;sample&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Log in as the sample user and set it up as you wish.<\/p>\n<p>Log out and log in as yourself (you should have the permission to administrate the computer).<\/p>\n<p>Then, I strongly recommend to keep a backup of the User Template folder before doing anything else. So, open the Terminal and type the command:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> sudo cp -R \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will be asked to give a password; type your password.<\/p>\n<p>You should now see a folder <strong><em>&#8220;User Template1&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> right below the <strong><em>&#8220;User Template&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To delete the system&#8217;s template, in the terminal window type:<br \/>\n<strong><em>sudo rm -R \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, copy the sample&#8217;s home folder:<br \/>\n<em><strong>sudo cp -R \/Users\/sample \/System\/Library\/User\\ Template\/English.lproj<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The change takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system has some presets which are stored in \/System\/Library\/User Template. Inside this folder you will find subfolders such as English.lproj, French.lproj etc. The idea is to create a user as you want it to be and replace the corresponding template with this user&#8217;s home folder contents. If the system language you use is English,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/2012\/01\/26\/creating-a-default-user-profile-under-osx-10-x\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating a Default User Profile under OSX 10.X<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,7,8,25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macosx","category-osx105","category-osx106","category-osx107","category-osx-administration","category-work-stuff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyharmless.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}