ChromiumOS offline local account

hyserski commented 3 years ago

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.

ghost commented 3 years ago

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

hyserski commented 3 years ago

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. .

MountainColdWay commented 3 years ago

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

MountainColdWay commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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

wokawoka commented 1 year ago

very much needed

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