How can I implement command line flags in ChromeOS?

[French Williams]

We just completed a migration from Firefox to Chrome as the default browser at our company.  Also, we are a Google Apps customer.

We have internal web-based workflows that use Kerberos delegation (forwardable tickets) to pass data between multiple servers.

For our Windows machines, we have implemented a registry setting (AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist) that enables Chrome to pass this delegation correctly.  You can also use command-line flags to do the same thing.  (See here - specifically, I'm looking at the --auth-negotiate-delegate-whitelist setting.)

However, part of the reason to move to Chrome is to provide a migration path to Chromebooks/boxes.  I can't find a way to configure ChromeOS with this same setting.

It appears that if you enter developer mode, that you can edit the /sbin/session_manager_setup.sh to include the command-line switch necessary to enable this in ChromeOS.    Unfortunately, you have to remain in developer mode to keep the setting active.

Is there anyway to accomplish what I'm trying to do?  For example, is there a way to write a custom extension that would enable this that I can push out through our Chrome policies?  If so, are there examples to help me get started?

Thanks in advance,

French

[Mattias Nissler]

The correct way of handling this would be to enable support for the same Kerberos polices that we have on desktop Chrome also on Chrome OS. This is currently not possible for technical reasons. We'd want to apply these settings only to specific user sessions, which the current implementation doesn't allow.

I can confirm that we don't allow changing flags in dev mode. Putting Kerberos flags on the command line is also something we wouldn't recommend, as it'd apply to the login screen and guest sessions / gmail account sessions as well.

Feel free to file a bug on https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Enterprise%20Issue, explaining your intended setup and the problem you're trying to solve.

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