Hidden admin account gets com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.plist "doesn't.exist"

[tcandela]

does creating a hidden admin account NOT create that hidden admin account a home folder? I don't see one.

Not sure if I could just ignore this error or not, all is working fine, but after casper imaging a mac that has a hidden admin account created, I take a look at the /var/log/jamf.log and i see

'Failed to set the attributes of /users/HIDDENADMINACCOUNT/Library/Preferences/ com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.plist: Error: Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file "com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.plist" doesn't exist"
UserInfo=0x7c06dff0 {NSFilePath=/Users/HIDDENADMINACCOUNT/Library/Preferences/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.plist, NSUnderlyingError=0x7c06dc70 "The operation couldn't be completed. No such file or directory"}

[mm2270 · Accepted solution]

When an account gets hidden, as in a UID below 501, the home folder gets placed in /private/var/, not in /Users/ It wouldn't be very hidden if it had a home folder in plain site in the Users directory.

[brandonusher]

Correct, the account does not get a home folder in /Users/ but rather in /private/var/

So for instance, our local admin is called "caspermgmt" so it's home folder is in /private/var/caspermgmt since we wanted it to be hidden. It wouldn't be very hidden if it was in /Users/

[tcandela]

so I can just ignore this message that i see in /var/log/jamf.log ?

[Chris]

I filed a bug on this a while ago, D-007509
Doesn't do any harm from what i can tell (apart from the spam in jamf.log)