User Defaults in Mavericks not working past first login.

And one more note, the messed up accounts only have desktop and downloads in their user account folder.

We're not seeing any issues with this, but rather than copying the entire account, we only copy files and plists that we're adding/changing to their appropriate path in the template.

10.9 also changed how it managed preferences. For example, something simple like changing the wallpaper for accounts doesn't work with OD MCX managed preferences anymore in 10.9. This is because 10.9 ignores any values in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist (even though OD correctly applies this preferences) and instead 10.9 will read the desktop picture preferences from ~/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db. Yes, that is correct, it is a SQLite db file that stores the desktop picture. Here is a really good article that explains how the desktop picture preference works in 10.9 http://1klb.com/blog/desktop-background-on-os-x-109-mavericks.html There is no MCX preference that can manage that in 10.9. A suggestion from JAMF was to use either an applescript or OSA in a shell script to do the following at login per user:

tell application "Finder"
    set path_to_wallpaper to POSIX file "/Library/Desktop Pictures/picturename.jpg"
    set desktop picture to file path_to_wallpaper
end tell

You can wrap that into a shell script or whatever with osascript. Here is the man page: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/osascript.1.html Speaking of osascript, if you write in ruby I found an interesting gem you can use http://rubygems.org/gems/osaka From the website: "Osaka wraps osascript (Applescript) and provides a ruby interface for automating tasks through the GUI on Mac".

I ran into the same problem. After a bit of mucking around I found that if I added a blank Library/Keychains folder to the User Template I haven't received the error so far in testing.

Does any one else have any work arounds for this?

fyi~ It sounds like the OD nested group membership lookup problem is supposed to be resolved in 10.9.2.

andrew,

Where did you read that from?

I have a ticket in with Apple Support for the problem and that is what they told me.

Cool, thanks a lot!

I don't use OD nested groups and I still have this problem. I am binding to AD with nested groups, with a custom script and create mobile account at login is enabled. UGH, any ideas?

I found this but have yet to try and create a defat user template after this process

https://support.apple.com/kb/TS5362

I had a similar issue with new users not applying default preferences. I was able to resolve my issue by dropping my preferences files in:
/System/Library/User Template/Library/Preferences

Our issues are similar.
After the imaging process it is not fully getting the OD settings.
If we manually unbind then bind again and restart the computer, everything is then working as expected.

Thank you,
Clay

Hi josaxo ,
What preference files did you copy to /System/Library/User Template/Library/Preferences ?

Thank you,
Clay

Hello,

Did your issues resolved with 10.9.2? I have the same issue in 10.9.1 machines with AD only accounts with mobile homes (OS X needs to repair your Library).

Best regards

Kostas

10.9.2 did resolve the problems for us.

Thank you,

Did you had to rebind the affected machines?

Kostas

We didn't actually let anybody install 10.9 until 10.9.2 came out so it wasn't much of an issue for us. I think that the few people who had updated to 10.9 previous to 10.9.2 had all of their MCX prefs refresh when they updated to 10.9.2, but they didn't need to rebind.

I'm still experiencing this issue with 10.9.2 but I can't remember whether I rebuilt my DUT after the 10.9.2 update. I'll try rebuilding it today to see if that helps. Someone in an earlier post had mention they cleared the files in their DUT's preference folder, that would defeat our purpose of creating custom templates so that wasn't a solution for me. Clearing the DUT's Keychain folder did not work for me either.

Currently we're still following Apple's KB article to fix the problem at login, which is a HUGE pain.

Chuck

DUT = Default User Template?

Kostas

You got it ;-)

@trenta's fix did it for me. Thanks.