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ChromiumOS offline local account

Open hyserski opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Hi. Is there a way to add to ChromiumOS a local login option? And I don't mean Guest. I mean an account not connected & synced with Google, but completely functional - in a same way as on every Linux distro or for example - Android (even with Gapps there is a way). Even Chrome browser is usable without Google login. It's saving favourites, extensions, addons & other data, but it's not syncing this data...
Someone asked Neverwere about it, but their answer was a bit like ,,We don't want it to happen". Neverwere is owned by Google now so that makes sense... I love the ChromeOS - I just hate Google (their hunger for data & personal stuff) & would love to be able to connect Chromebook with alternative sync (No. Not Chinesse like in FydeOS, but more to something like Nextcloud maybe...) or not sync this way at all & still use Chromebook like a Linux with nicer UI.

hyserski avatar Apr 15 '21 22:04 hyserski

Maybe you can create dummy account, and log out it. Btw does non chrome browser still support syncing with google account ?

ghost avatar May 04 '21 09:05 ghost

Maybe you can create dummy account, and log out it. Btw does non chrome browser still support syncing with google account ?

I don't know if non chrome browser supports it, but I know that I'm able to use Chromium browser & I don't need to log in. Even official Chrome browser function well without Google login - It just doesn't sync. .

hyserski avatar May 04 '21 14:05 hyserski

maybe we need this!!! google delete it!!! https://crbug.com/921770 about enable local account shell

MountainColdWay avatar Jul 09 '21 08:07 MountainColdWay

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/main/tips-and-tricks.md#how-to-enable-a-local-user-account can be enable local user account

MountainColdWay avatar Jul 12 '21 07:07 MountainColdWay

@arnoldthebat @alesimula To enable local account, we need add "autotest" package to board.

MountainColdWay avatar Jul 12 '21 07:07 MountainColdWay

very much needed

wokawoka avatar Apr 16 '23 13:04 wokawoka