User Skeleton/Default Profile

Does OSX have a user skeleton file that sets default profile parameters? I am looking to change settings, but can't seem to find the exact file nor documentation.
Any hints deeply appreciated.

The default home folder is in /System/Library/User\ Template/
It's broken down by languages. Only the root user has access.
You can also make changes in /Library/Preferences to provide system-wide changes.

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Even new users getting default profile

I have an Windows server 2012 box configured with RDP services. I had been deleted a few old profiles (more than 90 days without logging in) to conserves space because my monitoring tool alerted me that there was 3GB left on the server. Upon deleting the
profiles I also deleted all of the registry keys associated with the profiles and rebooted the server. Now user log in including new users that had accounts created within the last 15 minutes are also getting default profiles. I have checked the Cals and we
are over our limit which we are working to remedy (we have the PO into management at this time should be approved any day now). Is there something else or somewhere else I should also be looking to resolve this issue. Thank you for any input. Please also take
note that I did delete all registry keys along with user folders for some of the people having issues.

Hi,
1. Under ProfileList key you still have the four registry values (Default, ProfilesDirectory, ProgramData, Public)?
2. NTFS Permissions on C:\Users match the following:
SYSTEM     Full control     This folder, subfolders and files
Administrators     Full control     This folder, subfolders and files
Users     Read and execute     This folder, subfolders and files
Everyone     Read and execute     This folder, subfolders and files
3. Please post the exact error messages that are logged when a problem user logs on.
Thanks.
-TP

How to alter the default profile for multiple users

I am trying to alter the default profile assigned to users during user creation to a new profile. I know to change the profile for one user using the syntax
alter user abc profile profileabc
The issue I have is that there are 100's of users under default profile and changing for each of them manually would be difficult. The approach that I see is to write a shell script where I connect to the db and get a list of all the users with default profile. Then I loop through the file making connection to the db each time and executing the alter statement.
Please help if you think that there can be a more efficient approach to this.
Thanks

alter user abc profile profileabcspool newsql.sql
select 'ALTER USER '|| USERNAME || ' PROFILE NEWPROFILE;' FROM DBA_USERS;
SPOOL OFF
@newsql.sql

How to create an default profile for every user on one machine? Deployment of configurations?

On firefox 3.5.X i can copy an configured profile from an user-folder to the programm folder of firefox. \mozilla firefox\defaults\profiles.
After an new user log in to the machine the default profile will get the actual profile of the new user. With all bookmarks, configurations and so on.
But this doesn't work with the firefox 3.6.10? What changed? What will be the way i can get an default configuration for every user on one machine? I want to deploy the firefox with an default configuration in our enterprise? Why does the behaviour change?
What to do?
Thanks...

No - there are no missing data, because nothing will be copied. The profile - folder does not work.
There are the standard first start behavior.
There might be another trick? Hint? Todo?
Thanks.

How to create a default profile for all users in Firefox 9.

I run a computer lab, and am looking for a way to create a default profile in Firefox 9 that new users can use. I want them to be able to launch Firefox for the first time, and see my homepage. I want to disable any check for default browsers, firstrun pages, or any other prompts.
The old .adm files for group policy don't seen to be working any longer.

See http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/howtodeploy.htm
You can create a defaults\profile folder in the Firefox program folder and place files in it to be used to create and initialize a new profile.

Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.

My Windows 7 crashed a couple days ago after a windows update, I got this message.
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.
I restarted the machine and got this message
Windows was unable to load the registry. This problem is often caused by insufficient memory or insufficient security rights.
DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. for C:\Users\TEMP\ntuser.dat
I checked the event Log I found these .
Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed.
Windows has backed up this user profile. Windows will automatically try to use the backup profile the next time this user logs on.
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile.
DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
This is the first error in the event viewer after a successful logon
The description for Event ID 34 from source ccSvcHst cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
ccSetMgr
Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Access is denied.
Looking at the Logs all I can tell is that after the Desktop Window Manager started if caused this error.
The winlogon notification subscriber <SessionEnv> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
then this one
The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)
Then this before it shutdown.
The User Profile Service has stopped.
I started up the PC and the first message I got was
How can I get access to my user profile? do I need to createa new Administrator account? Please help
The EventSystem sub system is suppressing duplicate event log entries for a duration of 86400 seconds. The suppression timeout can be controlled by a REG_DWORD value named SuppressDuplicateDuration under the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\EventSystem\EventLog.

hi do the following
1. In Search programs and files (Windows 7) area, type in regedit, and press Enter.
2. If prompted click yes,
3. expand the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. click the sid that related to your admin profile (if you not sure, click each sid and in turn look to the right hand side of registry editor it will show who that sid is related to one of the registry files should hae in description localhost\admin or
something similair)
5. right click the sid and press delete.
6. restart your machine and log back on with the admin account, this will then rebuild the admin profile... dont worry when it loads and none of your personal settings are saved or files or folders... go to c:\users
in here you will see two folders for the admin account, one will be just admin and the other most likely admin.localhost
i cant remember which one is which but just check both, one will still have all your files and folders in it.
i suggest making a backup of your data before doing this incase something does go wrong, but ive had this happen many times in a domain enviorment and has worked for me everytime.

How to change the theme in the default profile so new users get a different theme

How can I change the theme (background picture, etc) for the default profile, so that when new users log in and get a new profile created, they get a different theme than the one they currently receive?

Hi,
If you want to get a different theme for new users, based on my understanding, it’s not easy, we can load the specific theme for all user because we can control OS to load this specific theme file.
The default location of theme file is:
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes
To configure OS load different theme for different user, I think this cannot be controlled by a registry key. It’s complicated to make OS choose different theme pack for different user, even more, the theme pack files are limited.
Here is some different but similar discussion about changing theme programmatically:
How do I change the current Windows theme programatically?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/546818/how-do-i-change-the-current-windows-theme-programatically
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Impersonate User: Mimic another user similar to the Default Profile

I'm looking for a way as an Administrator to impersonate another user similar to the way you can login to the portal using the Default Profiles.
Example: I select a user to impersonate and then click a button. I'm then in the portal as that user.
There may be a problem opening documents, etc, but I'm more interested in making sure that I see the content that the other person is seeing.
It would be a great help to diagnose security problems such as "Why can't I see this portlet, etc."
One solution I thought of was to switch ID's in the PTUSERS table. This solution wouldnt' want to go any further than dev though. I don't really like this solution because if you forget to switch them back or they are in the portal when you switch them......there's a problem.

I think that changing the PTUsers table is unlikely to do what you want. It's likely to break the system because there are a number of other tables that contain data about users, and you have not changed those tables. Additionally, information may be cached in memory, so changing the tables would not change that information.
I think that there is a significantly easier way to do this, though it may still not be easy. The IPTSession interface supports a function called ImpersonateUser. If you are logged into the Portal as an Administrator, you can call ImpersonateUser to switch your session over to that of another user- from then on, the Server will treat you as the second user.
This is a very easy call to make, but it's only half the story- the UI also has to know to treat you as the new user (e.g. use the correct language settings, flush cached session info, etc.) This is basically like doing a login. I don't know the details of how this would be done (a discussion forum about UI customization would be more useful here), but I could imagine doing something like copying the login screen logic to a second, "hidden" login screen which takes in a username, but no password. The page would only operate if you were already logged in as an Administrator, but it would perform the "standard" login logic, except that it would do Session.ImpersonateUser on the pre-existing session instead of creating a new session and logging in as the new user.

How do I create a default profile for all users of a computer in Windows 7/Vista for Firefox versions above 8? I'd like all new users on a computer to get the same defaults, bookmarks, homepage, etc...

I have found help for this on older versions of Firefox, but I can't seem to find anything for the latest versions above 8. There must be someway to accomplish this for imaging on a large scale.

You can create a defaults\profile template folder in the Firefox program folder for new profiles the same way as in older versions. That folder only isn't there anymore because all files have been moved to the omni.ja(r) archive, so you need to create it yourself.

Server 2012 R2 VDI with profile disks not using domain default profile

I'm testing a VDI environment running on Windows Server 2012 R2. The VMs in the pool are running Windows 7.
I've enabled profile disks for my test pool. I also have a domain default profile (stored under netlogon) that is used when creating profiles for new users.
I've found that when a new user logs into the VDI pool, the domain default user profile is not being used to create the new profile. Can this be changed?

Hi,
I also have a domain default profile (stored under netlogon) that is used when creating profiles for new users.
Place default profile under netlogon share doesn’t enable users to use it as their default user profiles, which only shares the profile contents to users who have access permissions.
If you want to customize default user profile, please refer to this article below:
Customize the Default User Profile by Using CopyProfile
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825135.aspx
Best Regards,
Amy
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How do we change the default profile folder location?

I work for a university in Manhattan. We are trying to install Firefox 5 for our users but Firefox profiles are stored in the AppData folder which is a problem for us as it exceeds the user profile space.
We need a way to have Firefox create the profile elsewhere. Is anyone aware of how to do this?

Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to offer a solution to our problem. Unfortunately, the Firefox profile information set under the administrative account does not transfer to the user accounts. Even though we created a Firefox profile set to open to a different location, when a user logs in the default profile, located in AppData, is created for them and they do not have access to the new one.
Are you aware of any way to set the profile of each user to automatically be created elsewhere? Thank you.

User has no profile in this organization. Contact your system administrator

Hi,
I have been attempting to install and have AM 7.2 working properly with the J2EE Policy Agent for V9 of Sun's App Server. I have followed mostly the default values during setup. I believe I have the installed properly. In order to verify that everything is working properly, I have also installed the sample app that comes with the J2EE Agent.
I made a few changes to the README that came witht the sample app by changing the default org setup in the exaple to dc=sample,dc=com. I setup up the policies, users, groups and roles as specified in the read me. However, when requested to authenticate, the access manager responds with "User has no profile in this organization..."
It is quite mystifying as to what this error actually means unless there are organizations within the default realm other than the one it actually came with. Which is what I am using.
Any help would be deeply appreciated and thank you in advance.
cheers
su./hail

Hi,
I had done as you suggested. But there is a problem. Once this is done, the amadmin subject can no longer log into the application amserver. However, the agent sample works. How I got around the the problem is to create another Realm (with sample as the parent realm). In this second realm I set the User Profile to ignore. Once done, I went about creating the subjects in the second realm. What was was kind of strange is that the URL policies had to be defined in the Parent realm.
Once so done, amadmin could log in and the application iteself worked as advertised.
Thank you for your input.
su./hail

Default profile not working when home directory on Windows server.

Hi,
Using 10.6.4.
I have created a default profile (stored in /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj) and this works fine for new local users.
If I bind to AD (Using UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location) and login as an AD user for the first time the default profile is not applied.
Has anyone experienced this problem?
Thanks,
Dom.

I'm experiencing the same thing, and am wondering if you had any success?

Client Create and copying default profiles

Hi,
This is Sanjeev.. I have created a new client(678) in IDES ECC6 and now i went inside the new client(678) with sap* user and tried to copy default profile sap_all from 001 client using local client copy. It results in error saying rfc source destination for 001 is to be given.. ?? i also have the doubt whether the 000 client should be copied instead of 001.what is the proper procedure in creating and copying defaults...?? Kindly state it in steps...
Thanks a lot in advance....
Regards,
Sanjeev Kumar C

Hi,
You can find all the information you need at the below link,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/fr/69/c24c0f4ba111d189750000e8322d00/frameset.htm
Regards,
Vishnu

Default Profile for Windows clients

Anyone know how to create default profile for windows clients from the SMB server on mac os x server? Do you just copy an account to default user on a windows client?

I am having the same issue the clients can save the data to the path therefore cant read it upon logon...Grrrrr

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