macOS 26 guest user.
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macOS 26 guest user.
Dear Lazyweb,
Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
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macOS 26 guest user.
Dear Lazyweb,
Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
https://jwz.org/b/yk4f@jwz Just checked my system and there's an alias there that points to /Library/ not /System/Library/, so I guess that's the new location?
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macOS 26 guest user.
Dear Lazyweb,
Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
https://jwz.org/b/yk4f@jwz you have to buy a new Mac for every guest user. Profit.
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@jwz Just checked my system and there's an alias there that points to /Library/ not /System/Library/, so I guess that's the new location?
@FreakyFwoof Tell me you haven't actually tried it without telling me that you haven't actually tried it.
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@FreakyFwoof Tell me you haven't actually tried it without telling me that you haven't actually tried it.
@jwz I hadn't because:
1. I was upstairs looking at it over the network from a windows machine
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2. I didn't even know this thing existed until your post today. -
macOS 26 guest user.
Dear Lazyweb,
Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
https://jwz.org/b/yk4fTurns out the answer is: turn off file vault; reboot; turn off guest user; reboot again; turn on guest user.
If you don't do all of that, the guest user goes into some horrid, kiosky "I am an iPad instead of a computer" mode.
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Turns out the answer is: turn off file vault; reboot; turn off guest user; reboot again; turn on guest user.
If you don't do all of that, the guest user goes into some horrid, kiosky "I am an iPad instead of a computer" mode.
@jwz do you ever get to turn filevault back on, or is it one or the other of guest users and file vault?
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@jwz do you ever get to turn filevault back on, or is it one or the other of guest users and file vault?
@jon_ellis I believe file vault triggers the "I am not a desktop" response.
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@jon_ellis I believe file vault triggers the "I am not a desktop" response.
@jon_ellis So I guess if this is on a machine where file vault matters for other accounts, your plan B is to make a Guest2 user and rsync it back to template from cron.
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Turns out the answer is: turn off file vault; reboot; turn off guest user; reboot again; turn on guest user.
If you don't do all of that, the guest user goes into some horrid, kiosky "I am an iPad instead of a computer" mode.
@jwz this is soo stackoverflow to post the answer yourself π€
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@jwz this is soo stackoverflow to post the answer yourself π€
@haayman We do what we must because we can. Also if I don't then the answer won't be there when I forget and do the search again.
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@haayman We do what we must because we can. Also if I don't then the answer won't be there when I forget and do the search again.
@jwz I know. Some people don't
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