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I'm building some imaging workflows and have captured some settings using Composer, User Environment, save as disk image, then deploy with FUT (Fill User Template) turned on. I am using Casper 9.82 on Yosemite both for capture of preferences and deployment. So far the following are working fine:



Desktop Pattern
Finder Preferences
Global Preferences


But deploying Screen Saver results in a corrupted library dialog on login and the OS seems unable to repair it at that point, resulting in an endless loop that can only be broken by command-option-shift-q to logout and hitting cancel a few times, then restarting, deleting the home directory of the account and logging in again.



Not sure why this is happening and it isn't a big deal, just thought I would post it here so others can avoid the problem.



I'm capturing Terminal Prefs manually by saving com.apple.Terminal.plist into the default user template with a pkg installer. Ditto for /etc/motd which displays a warning to all Terminal users. I'm afraid I still like to set a number of user settings (default dock included) because I can. Going to a package-based workflow with Casper is certainly challenging in this regard, and each version of OS X seems to deprecate this kind of approach further.



Cheers...

In my experience this is a bug with how FUT is handled. A few of us have seen this on all sorts of .dmgs intending to use FUT. Here are a few links... though I'm a bad jamfnation user and haven't opened a bug report with JAMF as I have moved away from most FUT endeavors anyways.



https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=19224



https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=15425


Possible fix here.


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