Rm -R "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Desktop"Ĭp -R /Users/Guest/Desktop "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Desktop" Rm -R "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library"Ĭp -R /Users/Guest/Library "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library" Rm -R "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Pictures"Ĭp -R /Users/Guest/Pictures "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Pictures" Tar cfz /tmp/user_template_ "/System/Library/User Template"Ĭp /Users/Guest/.DS_Store "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/.DS_Store" Here's a quick script to copy all the settings over (after first making a backup) This may already be covered in another hint. When the Guest account is generated, this is where it takes all the prefs from. You can customize every aspect of the guest account by setting it up, then copying all the prefs etc. Uncheck Merge With User's Dock" at the bottom of the window.ĭone! A custom Dock for the Guest account that comes up with each new login.Add and remove the Dock items you want in your customized Dock. Click Manage Always at the top of the window. Select the guest account and click Preferences in the tool bar.Open Workgroup Manager, which you just installed as part of step #1.Make sure the guest account is logged out.
#CHANGE DOWNLOAD PREFERENCES MAC FIREFOX TO DOCK INSTALL#
Download and install the Leopard Server Admin Tools from Apple.Here's a way to set up the Guest account's Dock however you like, and have it automatically come up at each login - and this doesn't involve hacking the System folder like some other hints floating around out there.
But if I change the Guest Dock, the Leopard default Dock comes back the next login. What guests are going to want to use Address Book or Garage Band? And for my guests who have never used a Mac before (most of them), where's the Web browser? What does Safari do? How nice it would be for the Guest account's Dock to have only Firefox in it. How nice it is for house guests to be able to log in while visiting, and have no remnants of their activity remain when they leave.īut that darn Dock. If you're like me, you like Leopard's new guest account and how it is flushed of all data between logins.
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