Any chance of getting Supervised Users to work on Chromium?

[Evangelos Foutras]

I had looked into why Chromium cannot create supervised users over a
year ago; it turned out to be a permissions issue. [1] Unfortunately,
the issue was marked as WontFix saying this is a Chrome-only feature.

Is this really the case, and is there no way for our distro Chromium
builds to have access to "Chrome Sync APIs for managed profiles" for
this feature to work?

If this is indeed a feature tied to Chrome, the following should be
corrected in Chromium (as to not continue shipping a broken feature):

1) Fix building with 'enable_supervised_users=false'; this is currently
not working on Chromium 59 and results in an error. [2]

2) Perhaps 'enable_supervised_users' could be updated to only be enabled
in Chrome builds by default. Its current default is:

enable_supervised_users = !is_chromecast

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477048#c26

[2] Build error below:

====================================================================
In file included from
../../chrome/browser/supervised_user/supervised_user_url_filter.h:20:0,
from
../../chrome/browser/supervised_user/supervised_user_service.h:25,
from
../../chrome/browser/ntp_tiles/chrome_most_visited_sites_factory.cc:19:
../../chrome/browser/supervised_user/supervised_users.h:13:2: error:
#error "Supervised users aren't enabled."
#error "Supervised users aren't enabled."
====================================================================

[Lei Zhang]

Can you file a bug for (1) ? It would be nice to make it work so those
packaging Chromium can disable the feature which does not work anyway.

For (2), I believe developers would like to build/test (parts of) the
feature in Chromium builds by default. Otherwise the feature is much
harder to develop for. There are multiple features that are enabled by
default in Chromium builds, but require API keys to work. Chrome
Supervised Users is just a rather restricted instance of that.

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[Dirk Pranke]

In addition to what Lei wrote, we'll take another look into whether we can make this feature available to distro builds and will hopefully be able to report back with something relatively soon.

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[Evangelos Foutras]

Filed the build failure as https://crbug.com/730773.

Fair enough regarding (2). Would be really great if what Dirk said were
to be implemented.

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 07/06/17 22:18, Dirk Pranke wrote:

In addition to what Lei wrote, we'll take another look into whether we can make this feature available to distro builds and will hopefully be able to report back with something relatively soon.

-- Dirk

Did anything come out of this? :-)

[Dirk Pranke]

Hi, 

I'm not sure that anyone ended up replying to this, but you may have seen that we've deprecated the Supervised Users feature: 

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3463947

So, I don't think we'll be opening this up at this point, sorry!

-- Dirk

[Evangelos Foutras]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the update; I was not aware this feature is on its way out. I think https://crbug.com/730773 can be closed.