sudo rm -R "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Keychains"

This removes the Keychain so that a new one is created.

Exactly what I seek…but I have a lingering question before jumping in.

Is there a reason you first have to create a Standard account and tweak that one before doing the copy of the User Template? I already have my administrator account exactly as I want all future user accounts to look…and I’m hoping I can just leap into the copy of the User Template folder now and have all future standard user accounts set up to look and feel just like the Administrator account EXCEPT FOR THE PERMISSIONS of the new user accounts.

Thanks,

SF

Also, best practice when doing this is to ensure that all the files are owned by root with group wheel.

So, in the terminal, the way to replace the files and set the ownership would be:

sudo mv “/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj” “/System/Library/User Template/English.backup”

sudo cp -R /Users/testuser “/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj”

sudo chown -R root:wheel “/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj”

When customising the user template, be careful of things like dock preferences and finder sidebar preferences that may point to a specific home folder, rather than the new user’s home folder.

My kids have accounts on the mac downstairs with Parental controls allowing us white-listed internet. It is very tedious to set up the Safari bookmarks in the two accounts. Each website is a multi-step process and heaven forbid that one account should have access to a website that the other doesn’t. Going to go from two accounts to three eventually and was not looking forward to the manual micromanagement.

Delicious bookmarked.