copying all chrome config data to different user

[Colin Law]

On 16 March 2018 at 19:50, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have historically had problems with my desktop environment when I use
> the same user home directory on a dual boot system (eg, when I have 16.10
> on one partition and 18.04 on another). Therefore, I like to use different
> user home directories for myself for each environment and copy or symlink
> directories that I can share without compatibility quirks. I would like to
> be able to have ALL data related to google-chrome accessible in both
> systems. I have dozens of user-data-dir's for various things I work on,
> each with their own stored passwords, cookies, etc. Based on some google
> searches, I thought I could copy everything I needed between the two home
> directories by copying the user-data-dir directories and the
> .config/google-chrome directory, but my stored passwords do not transfer.
> Does anybody know how I can get everything I need (and nothing I don't
> need) from one home directory and put it in another to get google-chrome
> (or chromium-browser) to just work on a dual boot system with isolated home
> directories for the same user?
>

I believe that the passwords are stored in an sqlite db
.config/google-chrome/Default/Login Data so at first sight that aught to
work.  However I wonder whether there is protection in the encryption
technique to prevent it working if you copy it somewhere else.  Have you
tried symlinking .config/google-chrome rather than copying it?

Colin


>
> Thanks,
>
>           David
>
> PS - I don't want to have to export passwords and import them... it seems
> like I should be able to just copy the right files/directories, which I can
> do from the command line quickly for dozens of user-data-dirs that each
> maintain different passwords.
>
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