Hi thinkpadfreak,thinkpadfreak wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:31 amMenu -> System -> Login and Security Manager
If you open "Login and Security Manager," I hope you will have some idea of user "spot."
Running Internet applications as spot is believed to be more secure, because spot is a kind of non-administrator.
Run as root, Chrome is working without sandbox.
If you have /root/.config/google-chrome, you are running Chrome as root.
If you have /root/spot/.config/google-chrome, you are running Chrome as spot.
(To see hidden directories/files, you need to press the "eyeball" icon.)
To enable user "spot," there are two ways. One is to use "Login and Security Manager," and the other is to use run-as-spot command.
In the window of "Login and Security Manager," google-chrome-stable is checked from the beginning. But this is misleading, because user "spot" is enabled when the status is changed from off to on.
So, using run-as-spot command will be more handy. For example,
# run-as-spot google-chrome-stable --disk-cache-dir=/tmp --disk-cache-size=10485760 --media-cache-size=10485760
If you are running Chrome as root, you don't have to bother to switch to user "spot." Starting it as spot creates a new profile.
I used your method to find out whether Google Chrome was operating as "root" or as "spot", and it appears to be running as "spot".
I tried doing "run-as-spot", but with this technique for some reason the arguments of this command ("--disk-cache-dir=...etc") showed up in the address bar of Chrome, and Chrome tried to open it up as it would with a web address.
A bit confusing.
Kind Regards,
John
Melbourne, Australia