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Welcome to the Pollen Wiki!

This Wiki will teach you how to modify Pollen to your liking. I would recommend doing this so Pollen can be full to your liking.

Note

device policies cannot be changed. So any policy starting device cannot be modified

Contribution

• If you plan on making your modified version of Pollen public please follow these guidelines!
• Make the code Free and Open-Source on GitHub
• Fork the original Pollen repo on GitHub then paste the modified code
• Do not sell it
• Give Credit
  • You can do this by including this in the Pollen script echo "# Pollen - https://github.com/mercuryworkshop/pollen #"

Getting Your Policies

• Method I
  • If your school hasn't blocked chrome://policy go there and click "Export to JSON"
  • Open the JSON file you downloaded
• Method II
  • If it is blocked run this script

  mkdir -p /tmp/overlay/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
  echo '{"URLBlocklist": []}' > /tmp/overlay/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/policy.json
  cp -a -L /etc/* /tmp/overlay/etc 2> /dev/null
  mount --bind /tmp/overlay/etc /etc
  

  • Then do method I

Editing Policies

• Open the policies.json file
• Remove everything that isn't in

  "chromePolicies": {
  }
  

  • Remove all the policies you would not like to change
  • Remove these from the policies you would like the change

    "level": "",
    "scope": "",
    "source": "",
    

  • Modify "value": to the correctly modified value
  • Remove the formatting from the policies. It should like something like this after all these steps (Just an example of one policy) "AllowDeletingBrowserHistory": { "value": true }
  • Note add a "," to the end of every policy until the last one

Modifying Pollen

• Copy the modified policy you made
• In Crosh install Pollen into /home/
• Run the command cd home && nano pollen.sh
• Paste the copied policies into echo '{*paste policies here*}' > /tmp/overlay/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/policy.json
• Save file
• Bam you modified Pollen!

Example

• Here's an example of modified Pollen

#!/bin/bash

if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Run this script as root (sudo)"
    exit
fi

echo "+########################################################+"
echo "# Welcome To Modified Pollen (v Version Number Here)!    #"
echo "# Descriptio                                             #"
echo "# -------------------------------------------------------#"
echo "# Credit:                                                #"
echo "# Your Name - Role Description                           #"
echo "# Pollen - https://github.com/mercuryworkshop/pollen     #"
echo "+########################################################+"

mkdir -p /tmp/overlay/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
echo '{"URLBlocklist": []", AllowDeletingBrowserHistory": true' > /tmp/overlay/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/policy.json
cp -a -L /etc/* /tmp/overlay/etc 2> /dev/null
mount --bind /tmp/overlay/etc /etc

echo ""
echo "Custom Pollen has been successfully applied!"