User entry from Setup Manager populated to local account creation fields?

[Jacob (jacobkbradley)]

Is it possible to pass user entry from Setup Manager (e.g. Full Name/Real Name) to the "Full Name" input field in the "Create a Mac Account" Setup Assistant step?

[Pham Manh Luc (MLuc24)]

Not into that field, no — though the reason is not the ordering, which is worth clearing up because it looks like it should be the obstacle. From the README:

It runs over Setup Assistant before a user is created, so it won't interfere with MDM-capable user or the secure token flow for FileVault.

So Setup Manager really is on screen before account creation. The problem is that it runs over Setup Assistant rather than being part of it — it is a separate app drawing on top, with no way to write into Apple's account screen.

What it does do with the entry, per the waitForUserEntry docs, is set the computer name, run a recon so the data lands in Jamf inventory, and write the values to a user data file on disk. Nothing in that path feeds back into Setup Assistant.

Prefilling the Full Name on that screen is a Prestage concern instead — the account settings in Automated Device Enrollment, which are applied before Setup Manager is in the picture at all.

If what you actually want is the entered name used somewhere on the Mac afterwards, the user data file is the hook — a script run later can read it, which gets you the same value without needing Setup Assistant to have collected it.