Comments on: Mountain Lion: suppress Apple ID / iCloud prompt

By: cabal95

cabal95 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:48:00 +0000

For the record, I set this up with “full” MCX (Open Directory on Apple OS X) and used the “often” method and it worked fine.

I also recommend doing this even if you want to use iCloud, we noticed that if iCloud is enabled at login by the setup assistant it will automatically move/merge all your calendars and contacts into the cloud, even if you didn’t want some of them in the cloud. For home users not so much of a problem, but for users in a corporate environment where they use their personal apple ID for getting to their iCloud stuff – it means all their work information is now merged with their personal info and requires manual sorting to undo it.

By: mjoffe

mjoffe — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:21:28 +0000

@Ramuntcho Where you able to bake the user template into the package you created? Or did you use a first run script?

By: Ramuntcho

Ramuntcho — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:31:05 +0000

Hello,

I put in the User Template the prefs com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist
with DidSeeCloudSetup -bool true
and LastSeenCloudProductVersion -string 10.8

It’s working very well

(On a 10.8.2 systeme, you can put 10.8 or 10.8.2, it’s working)

By: GregN

GregN — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:15:26 +0000

“someone” has a working solution — that was the whole point of my post. This solution works for me. There may be other bits needed that I already have in place, though. I’m using Local MCX, though, and not a LaunchAgent or LoginHook.

By: MiqViq

MiqViq — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:02:55 +0000

Does anyone have a working solution for disabling iCloud prompt with first login on OS X 10.8?
I did try using LaunchAgent and LoginHook for creating com.apple.loginwindow and loginwindow for the user logging in but it does not seem to work…still prompting for iCloud.

By: GregN

GregN — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:18:04 +0000

Thanks for that additional info! That might explain why this seems to work for some and not for others…

By: Kris K

Kris K — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:42:58 +0000

Be aware that these two keys on their own don’t work in a newly created account from the User Templates. The setup assistant will still run if the account lacks a com.apple.loginwindow.plist and a loginwindow.plist. They can be blank, they just need to exist. Something like this will be sufficient:

defaults write /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow -dict ”
defaults write /Users/username/Library/Preferences/loginwindow -dict ”

By: Anders Svensson

Anders Svensson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:21:52 +0000

defaults write “/path/com.apple.SetupAssistant” DidSeeCloudSetup -bool true

and

defaults write “/path/com.apple.SetupAssistant” LastSeenCloudProductVersion -string ’10.8.1′

appear to work fine for me.

By: Dennis Mueller

Dennis Mueller — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:34:07 +0000

This appeared to work for the the local administrator profile at first login (installed in InstaDMG), but not newly created mobile user profiles

By: GregN

GregN — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:00:58 +0000

This tool: https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile