"cannot create temp dir for user data dir" error when not running as admin

Question

I'm just able to run my python selenium code when I run it as admin. If I run it normally I get following error:

C:\startup>Python C:/startup/startupWebDriverScript.py    
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/startup/startupWebDriverScript.py", line 26, in connectGuest
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions,executable_path="C:/Python36/Chrome Webdriver/chromedriver.exe")
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 140, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 229, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 297, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot create temp dir for user data dir 
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.32.498550 (9dec58e66c31bcc53a9ce3c7226f0c1c5810906a),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64)

This is my code:

    chromeOptions = Options()
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream")
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--kiosk")
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions,executable_path="C:/Python36/Chrome Webdriver/chromedriver.exe")

I'm using python 3.6, Windows 10 and selenium 3.5

Answer 1

I got the same error and nothing described before helped me. I fixed the problem such a way:

1. Enter echo %temp% in Windows' command-line
2. It returned C:\TEMP\2 (Why???)
3. So I created this folder and after that everything started to work