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...