Keychains

[#1]

Hey All-

When you are making your base OS images do you delete the keychains? I just noticed when testing a 10.5.4 one that when I open Safari it asked me to unlock a login keychain. I looked in Keychain Access and there is a "Safari Forms Auto-Fill" item in the login keychain. Should I just delete that and leave the login keychain, or remove the whole keychain?

Thanks

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

[#2]

I'll make my standard argument for using InstaDMG to create the base image. You don't have to run the image to do any configuration, so it doesn't get mucked up with anything like keychains. Plus, it is usable on both PPC and Intel machines.

http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=instadmg1.3b&query=instadmg

The last version I can find up on AFP548.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6907 | C 940.312.2475

[talkingmoose]

The latest version is currently 1.4b1 (released June 24, 2008) and can be
found here <http://www.afp548.com/filemgmt/index.php?id=80>.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

[#4]

That is actually a beta release, even though the entire thing is kind of beta. The latest "real" release is 1.3b. Josh explains it on the front page of AFP548.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6907 | C 940.312.2475

[ernstcs]

I have never seen this issue making an OS image for Composer. I've only seen this for the root account for Restore and NetBoot images, but not for regular users using the Base OS.

Craig