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Idea #11252: Ability to sudo from Nautilus when changing file permissions.

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #11325: "Administrator mode" for Dolphin/Nautilus.
Written by bigfox the 17 Jul 08 at 21:09. Related project: Gnome. Status: In development
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When in the file or folder properties -> Permissions in Nautilus (Gnome's file browser) it would be nice to be able to authenticate in the same way as I would for network manager or some of the other system settings to fix permissions of a file.

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Written by bigfox the 17 Jul 08 at 21:09.
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mgunes (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 17 Jul 08 at 23:28
This is among the planned features for Nautilus, which will be implemented via PolicyKit, but as far as I know, there's no ETA, since the person working on it is on a long leave.

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/11/23/file-operations-in-nautilus-gio-and-adv entures-in-the-land-of-policykit/

frup wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 00:13
This is something that has irked quite a few people on Ubuntu forums over the years, and since PolicyKit has become a soon to be reality. I think it would be nice.


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