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Idea #1709: Using Nautilus with root permissions

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #5705: gksu /usr/bin/nautilus in Administration menu.
Written by taron the 29 Feb 08 at 19:12. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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You can use nautilus with root permissions when you start it as "sudo nautilus", but it would be more easy and understandable for beginners if the just have to type in their password (like Synaptic e.g.) and then they can rename, delete, etc. in non-user folders.
Beginners don't want to do anything with the terminal.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #1709
Written by taron the 29 Feb 08 at 19:12.
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peterjs wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:24
There's already a package for this:
nautilus-gksu

aysiu (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:58
You'd use gksudo nautilus, of course--not sudo nautilus.

I've written a little spiel on this:
http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/file-browser-privilege-escalation-don e-right/

nilgiri wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:23
Sounds like a way for beginners to get themselves into trouble easier. Personally, I don't want to make it easy for certainly family members to muck around with protected parts of the file system, but I do want them to be able to install software when they want, so the need sudoer privileges for that.

sid350 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:47
I can not believe that somebody wants it!

sparc128 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 02:56
Many want it but power users are afraid of unleashing it...

Duplicate on:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1709/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/43/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/824/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/332/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2640/

mawx wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:19
What you are looking for is nautilus-gksu

You can install it and it will offer a "Edit file as Administrator" in the context menus of system files.

This should be installed by default to make things easier though.


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