Disable iCloud at first boot

[paulaust]

With the release of the 10.7.2 update a Lion machine prompts users at first login to configure iCloud. Has anyone figured out how to disable this at image time yet?

Paul Austin

End User Computing, Platform Engineering

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[nessts]

have to put a file in the user template /System/Library/User
Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist

you can create it with this

defaults write com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool true

-- Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering

[#3]

Thank you all for solving issues and providing solutions a few minutes before I arrive at them.
This is one more that gets filed in my "Gems" folder as we prep our master Lion image with 10.7.2.
8-)

Nick Caro Senior Desktop Support Administrator

[kstrick]

I just tried moving the iCloudPref.prefPane out of
/System/Library/PreferencePanes
made a folder called /System/Library/PreferencePanesOFF/ and moved it
there.

Seems to work so far, although there is probably a more elegant solution.

ks

[nessts]

you have to get rid of the mail accounts pref pane as well
I made a launch daemon to watch both of those paths and chmod -R 000 each
pref pane any time the pane is touched so updates won't undo it.

-- Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services

[nessts]

disabling the video and disabling icloud are two different things.
I think you can probably add in some of the settings about the video and
it will not play as wellŠ
GestureMovieSeen = none;

-- Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services