FS#44884 - chromium does not enforce policy settings
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Opened by Bill Mair (red-lichtie) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 07:55 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:53 GMT
Opened by Bill Mair (red-lichtie) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 07:55 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:53 GMT
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Package: chromium
Version: 42.0.2311.135-1 Architecture: x86_64 and armv7 After trying to get pepper flash working on ARM, I found that "/etc/chromium/default" wasn't being referenced (using strace). So I thought that setting up the configuration must have changed and found the profile description. Following the instructions here: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/linux-quick-start, I created the directories and file "/etc/chromium/policies/managed/test_policy.json". The directories are scanned and the file is read on start up but the home page isn't opened. When I open "chrome://policy/", I can confirm that the value has been set (displayed in a table): Applies to: Machine Level: Mandatory Policy name: HomepageLocation Policy Value: www.chromium.org Status: OK Pressing the "Home" button takes me to the usual google page and ignores the HomepageLocation setting. If other settings are effected then this is a security issue because policies that are defined by the administrator as bing security relevent are ignored. |
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Closed by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:53 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: Policy files get loaded correctly.
Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:53 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: Policy files get loaded correctly.
Regarding Pepper Flash, it should work out of the box (assuming you have installed chromium-pepper-flash from the AUR).