How do I run Google Chrome as root? [closed]

Answer 1

Just replace following line

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

with

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir 

all things will be right.

Answer 2

It no longer suffices to start Chrome with --user-data-dir=/root/.config/google-chrome. It simply prints Aborted and ends (Chrome 48 on Ubuntu 12.04).

You need actually to run it as a non-root user. This you can do with

gksu -wu chrome-user google-chrome

where chrome-user is some user you've decided should be the one to run Chrome. Your Chrome user profile will be found at ~chrome-user/.config/google-chrome.

BTW, the old hack of changing all occurrences of geteuid to getppid in the chrome binary no longer works.

Answer 3

1. Go to /opt/google/chrome.

2. Open google-chrome.

3. Append current home for data directory. Replace this:

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

With this:

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir $HOME

For reference visit site this site, “How to run chrome as root user in Ubuntu.”

Answer 4

i followed these steps

Step 1. Open /etc/chromium/default file with editor
Step 2. Replace or add this line 
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=detect --user-data-dir=/root/chrome-profile/"
Step 3. Save it..

Thats it.... Start the browser...

Answer 5

I tried this with Kali linux, Debian, CentOs 7,And Ubuntu

(Permanent Method)

1. Edit the file with any text editor (I used Leafpad) Run this code your terminal leafpad/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

2. (Normally its end line) find exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" or exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$PROFILE_DIRECTORY_FLAG" \ "$@"

3. change as exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --no-sandbox --user-data-dir

(Just Simple Method)

Run This command in your terminal

$ google-chrome --no-sandbox --user-data-dir

Or

$ google-chrome-stable --no-sandbox --user-data-dir

Answer 6

Run from terminal

# google-chrome --no-sandbox --user-data-dir

or

Open the file opt/google/chrome/google-chrome and replace

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

to

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir --no-sandbox

It's working for chrome version 49 in CentOS 6. Chrome will give warning also.