Chromium Policies Folder?

[stasis_22]

Hi There,
Thanks to Arslan S. for the Chromium Browser package.

I was wanting to create a custom TC box for a family member and was wanting to set a few policies.
I saw  this info http://www.chromium.org/administrators/linux-quick-start  about creating a .json file for policies.
I created the folders and tried it in TC, but it didn't seem to work.

I was just wondering if anyone knew if the TC extension behaves like that, or is built to look at a different location or something?

I know that you can start Chromium off the command line with arguments to open the home page, but I was looking so set up something a bit easier than that.

Thanks

[Arslan S.]

you should put that file in the folder /etc/chromium/policies/managed

also you should add etc/chromium to your backup list

[stasis_22]

Thanks for the help,
I tried that and I still couldn't seem to get it going.
I am just testing this stage and if it works I will set up a more permanent folder structure, so at this stage I manually created /etc/chromium/policies/managed
I download the example .JSON file from http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates
copied it to /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome.json
chmod 777 on it so that everyone has full access while I am testing.

Opened Chromium, as the .json file has the homepage set to www.chromium.com I was expecting that to be the homepage, but nothing seemed to come up.

Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks again.

[Arslan S.]

i have got it working by following the instructions given in the link at first post

[stasis_22]

Thanks for the help,
I think it is going, but for some reason the line in the example

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"HomepageLocation": "www.chromium.org" doesn't seem to work as expected. I was expecting that to set the homepage when starting up.
When I tried again with the demo .json file from here:
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates/chrome.json?attredirects=0

it seemed to set the homepage off the policy line:

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"RestoreOnStartupURLs": ["http://example.com", "http://chromium.org"],
It wasn't what I was expecting, but I think it's going now. Just thought I would share.

Thanks again.