look for and purge all Chrome profiles in @home. better yet, you can create a new user profile for yourself give it access to use sudo, and then purge the old profile after saving anything you find relevant.

This will literally blow away anything that was theirs and allow you to focus on yours.


On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 9:24 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
I thought this might be a job for AI.

I asked AI "How can i remove the password on  chrome on linux"

AI said:

To remove the saved passwords in Google Chrome on Linux, you need to
follow these steps:

     Open Google Chrome.
     Click on the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner of the
browser window.
     Select "Settings" from the dropdown menu.
     Scroll down and click on "Passwords" under the "Autofill" section.
     Here, you'll see a list of saved passwords. Click on the three-dot
menu icon next to the password you want to remove.
     Select "Remove" from the dropdown menu.
     Confirm the removal when prompted.

If you want to remove the password for your Chrome profile altogether,
you'll need to reset Chrome settings. Here's how:

     Close Google Chrome if it's open.
     Open a terminal window.
     Enter the following command and press Enter:

     bash

     rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome

     This command will remove the entire Chrome configuration directory,
including all settings and passwords.
     Restart Google Chrome.

Please note that resetting Chrome settings will remove all your
customizations, bookmarks, saved passwords, and other settings. So make
sure to back up any important data before proceeding.

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  I have not verified if this is correct so precede with caution.

Keith



On 2024-06-12 06:07, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I gots a little problem. I gots a computer with Linux on it. It has
> chrome on it. It asks for a password everytime I start it. The
> password WAS the previous owners password (I knew what it was). I
> uninstalled chrome in hopes it would reset the password. I was wrong.
> Now it won't accept either his nor my password. NOw I just click
> cancel when it asks for a password (a few times) and it just starts
> chrome.
> 1- Can we just start chrome without it asking for a password?
> if not
> 2- How do we set a password up?
>
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