copying all chrome config data to different user

[Colin Law]

Actually I now think that Chrome on Ubuntu may store the passwords in
the Ubuntu Login Keyring if you are not in to google and keeping them
in the cloud or maybe even if you are.  Run Passwords & Keys and see
if yours are there. It is difficult for me to be certain as I am not
sure which ones have been stored by which app.  The clue is that if I
have auto login enabled so that I do not enter my pwd on logging onto
the computer then Chrome asks for my password when I run it.

Colin

On 22 March 2018 at 16:45, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 19 March 2018 at 18:06, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I understand that there are some cloud-based ways to sync passwords, but
>> > I'm
>> > looking for a way to just clone an arbitrary number of chrome
>> > configurations
>> > from one partition to another with a wild card command at the command
>> > line.
>> > This should be possible... I just need to know what subset of
>> > configuration
>> > data to copy. user-data-dirs and .config/google-chrome does not appear
>> > to be
>> > enough.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Seriously, I think you need to ask this.
>
>
> I have dozens of profiles and I simply want to have them seamlessly work in
> the same computer when using an alternate boot partition. There is no reason
> that the use of the cloud should be necessary to share data on the same
> computer and there is no reason that per-profile GUI interaction should be
> necessary to do what I want to do. If there is a command line command to
> clone profiles (including passwords), that would be completely acceptable...
> I could write a script and wildcard clone all of my profiles. Is there one?
> Otherwise, it's very inconvenient to have to open each profile (twice I
> assume, once on the old to set up export, and once on the new to set up
> import) and perform any level of GUI interaction to clone the environment I
> have working on another partition.
>
>>
>>
>> You want an additional external way to duplicate a built-in function
>> of the software, which is to say, one that will therefore by nature
>> _conflict_ with the built-in function. That is unwise.
>
>
> Not really... I want a command line backup and restore of configuration data
> for an application. Here's an example use case that really happened to me. I
> went on vacation last summer and cloned my entire user directory to eSATA
> drive in case I needed to handle any work issues while I was gone. I was
> able to use chrome including saved passwords from that cloned disk. But then
> I had a problem with that disk... no big deal I thought... I'll just ssh
> into my desktop and copy the small subset of the data that I used on a daily
> basis (instead of hundreds of GB of full backup). The problem was that I
> didn't know what subset to copy and my internet connection was too slow to
> attempt to use VNC to do any sort of per application GUI interaction to
> export configurations.
>
>>
>>
>> If you just want to share the profile, share the profile. Put it
>> somewhere both installations/accounts can access and symlink it. Job
>> done.
>
>
> First, sharing the profile by sharing the user-data-dir doesn't work for
> passwords. Second, when I went back to 16.10 (because some things are still
> broken for me in 18.04) and ran chrome on one of the profiles that I had
> used from 18.04, it said the profile was broken because it had been used by
> a newer version of chrome. So the safe thing to do it copy the user-data-dir
> rather than symlink, but neither symlinking nor copying user-data-dir works,
> so the question of copy vs symlink is moot. Somewhere outside of
> .config/google-chrome and user-data-dir profile directories there is some
> configuration info that has passwords or enables the passwords to work and
> that's the configuration info that I'm looking for.
>
>
>
>
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