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Kepler
Kepler

Reputation: 705

How to run chromium browser as a normal user?

When I try to start chromium I get this:

Please start Chromium as a normal user. If you have previously run Chromium as a root, you will need to change the ownership of your profile directory.

I searched for it, but found articles only like run chromium as a root. I use linux (Ubuntu) not a long time, that I need a help.

Addition If I add new normal user, how can I run chromium from root like them?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 20672

Answers (2)

user3098378
user3098378

Reputation: 17

If username and password is already set in your Linux System then, answer by @Dropout is perfect. If there is no password set and you want to run as a normal user, you can just do

su -c "chromium --user-data-dir=/foo/bar"

This will allow you to open Chromium when you don't have a password defined in your Linux System

Upvotes: 0

Dropout
Dropout

Reputation: 13866

You can run Chromium with an argument from the command line like this

chromium --user-data-dir=/foo/bar

This will enable you to run it as root. This is not advised though for security reasons.

If by running as a normal user you mean execute the command as someone else, you can just do

su - username -c "chromium --user-data-dir=/foo/bar"

if you need to use the user's settings, then the path(user-data-dir) should point to them.

Upvotes: 2

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