Chromium Browser Workaround

[leg3nd]

I read a few posts about people trying to get chrome working on BackTrack 5, I solved this a couple days after the release and figured I would share.

I was not able to get it working with the --user-data-dir, even with separate users and correct permissions as suggested by the chrome developers. If someone did figure this out, it may be a more secure solution and your welcome to post it here.

Problem: Chrome will not run with root permissions.
Solution: Use a version of chrome before the UID check was implemented.

I have thrown together some of the older debs, collected from the ubuntu repo's, as well as a basic bash script to get it going.

Download 32bit: http://info-s3curity.com/public/chro...hrome32.tar.gz
Download 64bit: http://info-s3curity.com/public/chro...hrome64.tar.gz

Enjoy.

EDIT: Appears another member has posted an alternate workaround as well. Was not aware when I posted this, I'm sure either method will accomplish the job.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...rome-root.html

[mahmuod]

Thank you.
Do you work this version without any problems, when running, you run the request by Root,
Do you work on this version Akrak 4 or why,

Worked on the chrome version download from the official website for him, and after download, it fails, ask me to run by Ruth, worked to give him this authority, but do not benefit from the piece, the version 4 of the Rev. I do not Do you have the benefit of the solution.?

[morning_wood]

easiy way to run Chrome as root:

simply append the shortcut in your menu with:

--user-data-dir

full entry:

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U --user-data-dir



no need to hex/edit/replace binaries

[uranus]

Hi,

i've trying another way, because having sandboxes is more secure :

1- adduser bob (or useradd bob)

2- sudo -u bob -i chromium

But there is a problem, about $DISPLAY :

No protocol specified

(chromium-browser:2728): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

Missing something? Is X launched as root the problem? Is needed tweaking $DISPLAY?

And it will be interesting launching some apps as "simple" user, not root...

[maxfx]

For those of you who like Chromium you should try SRWare Iron, its a browser based on Chromium.
For more info: Iron Website

Or download the deb files:
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.deb (32-Bit)
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.deb (64-Bit)

You can run as root without having to do any changes.

Hope it helps you guys

[2901119]

just download the latest version of chrome from google, it works right out of the box for me, and I'm running as root.

EDIT: disregard my post also as maxfx stated below, the new version has the same problem with root

[maxfx]

For those of you who like Chromium you should try SRWare Iron, its a browser based on Chromium.
For more info: Iron Website

Or download the deb files:
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.deb (32-Bit)
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.deb (64-Bit)

You can run as root without having to do any changes.

Hope it helps you guys

Forget this post, the new version has the same problem with root.

[tonyITa]

I found a solution to run Chrome to run as root, the difference it's the folder location but it's just editing the chrome or chromiun file into the hex editor, in ascii decimal find and change modify "geteuid "to getppid.

location /usr/lib/chromium-browser and the file to edit its chromium-browser (around 50mb)

location opt/google/chrome/ and the filename its chrome also around 50mb big.
Personally I use GHex and it saves the location, so if you upgrade your browser, the program remembers the location which makes things easy.

[paparts]

I am using Backtrack 5 Gnome as my main OS and I have successfully used the latest version of Chrome using the steps defined here : http://www.icpep.org/chrome-on-backtrack-5/
I have also added chrome on my software sources. So far there were 2 updates I have encountered with chrome and I just did the same thing and still working.