installing chromium and launching it as root

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2013-03-15
oliv66

installing chromium and launching it as root

Hi all,

As you know it, chromium cannot be launched as root by default.

In the past (under BT5R3), i used the following command :

hexedit /pathtochromium and I replaced geteuid by getppid.

It doesn't work anymore.

The workaround I am using is : chromium --user-data-dir. It works

How could I launch Chromium as root permanently?

Thanks for your help.

Olivier
2013-03-16
muts

Could you please submit this as a bug report @ http://bugs.kali.org with more debugging information if possible.

Thanks.
2013-03-16
brav0hax

bug report completed -> http://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=81

In the mean time the work around is to add the --user-data-dir flag to the default file (/etc/chromium/default)

Confirmed if works fine.
2013-03-16
Don

Please do you mind expanding on how to do this like your other tutorials? I guess it'll be of help to some other newbies like me :)
2013-03-16
oliv66

thanks brav0hax

I was using chromium --user-data-dir directly in cli.

I added it to /etc/chromium/defaut and it works perfectly.
2013-03-16
linccracker

hexedit /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
tab
ctrl+s geteuid change to getppid
ctrl+x Y
2013-03-16
brav0hax

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Don

Please do you mind expanding on how to do this like your other tutorials? I guess it'll be of help to some other newbies like me :)

Don,

here are the steps...

open terminal and issue the following command

Code:

nano /etc/chromium/default

You will see a line in the file call CHROMIUM_FLAGS=" "

Within the quotes enter the following --user-data-dir
Attachment 18

Then press Ctrl-x (to exit nano)
Then press y (to save your changes)

Next time you launch Chromium you should not have an issue.
2013-03-18
Don

Thanks braxOhax. It works like a charm;)
2013-07-29
hashbang

NICE! I need to have ten more chars.
2013-11-26
sahmada

It is the best solution

Quote:

Originally Posted by linccracker

hexedit /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
tab
ctrl+s geteuid change to getppid
ctrl+x Y

It works like a charm ;)
2014-02-12
aldobelus

Thank you!

Perfectly clear! Thank you. The image is perfect to understand it, please, don't let it desappear :D
2014-05-10
kalimba

thanks XD this forum its very good :)
2015-03-24
beshkanweb

Very Good :)
2015-10-19
mr.redsnake

thank you :)
2016-04-26
karencho

Hello,i have installed Chromium browser (apt-get install chromium) ,but browser not launching...there is no error or something just dont launching at all,what i should do?
2016-05-08
karencho

Quote:

Originally Posted by linccracker

hexedit /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
tab
ctrl+s geteuid change to getppid
ctrl+x Y

hello ,hexedit is giving an error "file is read only" how to fix it?
2017-01-14
TheUnknown

I tried the way with the Hexedit but it still wont run on my system. As I tried in console there were the following output:

PHP Code:

[1:1:0114/111044:FATAL:sandbox_linux.cc(180)] Check failed: sandbox::Credentials::MoveToNewUserNS(). #0 0x56454d61270e <unknown> #1 0x56454d62b03e <unknown> #2 0x56454bed2720 <unknown> #3 0x56454ca5f510 <unknown> #4 0x56454d2591a7 <unknown> #5 0x56454d2598a8 <unknown> #6 0x56454d257aa9 <unknown> #7 0x56454bdd65bc ChromeMain #8 0x7f9415478700 __libc_start_main #9 0x56454bdd646a _start Received signal 6 #0 0x56454d61270e <unknown> #1 0x56454d612ac9 <unknown> #2 0x7f942010eeb0 <unknown> #3 0x7f941548b198 gsignal #4 0x7f941548c61a abort #5 0x56454d612285 <unknown> #6 0x56454d62b1dd <unknown> #7 0x56454bed2720 <unknown> #8 0x56454ca5f510 <unknown> #9 0x56454d2591a7 <unknown> #10 0x56454d2598a8 <unknown> #11 0x56454d257aa9 <unknown> #12 0x56454bdd65bc ChromeMain #13 0x7f9415478700 __libc_start_main #14 0x56454bdd646a _start r8: ffffad63acc6c030 r9: ffffad63acc6c020 r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000202 r12: 00007ffd5b53dc30 r13: 00007ffd5b53e0b8 r14: 00007ffd5b53dbe0 r15: 0000000000000000 di: 0000000000000001 si: 0000000000000001 bp: 00007ffd5b53dbd0 bx: 00007ffd5b53e0b0 dx: 0000000000000006 ax: 0000000000000000 cx: 00007f941548b198 sp: 00007ffd5b53d878 ip: 00007f941548b198 efl: 0000000000000202 cgf: 002b000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000 trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000 [end of stack trace] [2543:2543:0114/111044:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(196)] Check failed: ReceiveFixedMessage(fds[0], kZygoteHelloMessage, sizeof(kZygoteHelloMessage), &real_pid). #0 0x55626302570e <unknown> #1 0x55626303e03e <unknown> #2 0x556262845ac3 <unknown> #3 0x556262844994 <unknown> #4 0x556262844f5e <unknown> #5 0x5562624e7ca1 <unknown> #6 0x5562624eac31 <unknown> #7 0x5562624e32a4 <unknown> #8 0x556262c6c8a8 <unknown> #9 0x556262c6aaa9 <unknown> #10 0x5562617e95bc ChromeMain #11 0x7f96f6b0b700 __libc_start_main #12 0x5562617e946a _start Abgebrochen

It is a fresh installation without any mods.
2017-01-17
danijov

This works for me open up the terminal type "vim /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop" (without quotes)
Go to line 131. "Exec=/usr/bin/chromium %U" and add with space after the %U "--no-sandbox" save and quit. (Exec=/usr/bin/chromium %U --no-sandbox)

Again on the terminal type "vim /etc/chromium.d/default-flags" on line 2 add "CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--user-data-dir" save and quit (case sensetive and dont forget to add the quotes after the = and after dir. (CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--user-data-dir")
2017-01-17
TheUnknown

Thanks!
That works perfectly well. But I don't understand the solution in all terms. The first is clear. Switching off the sandbox-thingy. But the second one, "user-data-dir". What does it?