[oe] [meta-browser] Running chromium as root

Jacobo Aragunde Pérez jaragunde at igalia.com
Tue Jan 16 12:22:27 UTC 2018


Hi!

On 15/01/18 23:14, Bhargava Sreekantappa Gayathri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone has been able to run chromium-x11 as root user? Is there a flag or config I can tweak before building chromium?
> 

You should be able to run chromium as root with the runtime flag
`--no-sandbox`. No changes in the build process are needed.

Take into account such a setup is discouraged for security reasons!

Best,
-- 
Jacobo Aragunde
Software Engineer at Igalia



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