Comment 39 for bug 12154

Even if Canonical integrates it in Ubuntu default apps?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 02:33, njh <email address hidden> wrote:

> That's very nice, but it's not something my aunt will be able to do.
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, robin0800 wrote:
>
> > You can add "sudo aptitude install nautilus-gksu" in a terminal and you
> > get an open as administrator on a right click on any folder or file in
> > nautilus now.
> >
> > --
> > Nautilus should have a superuser mode
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12154
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> > of a duplicate bug.
> >
>
> --
> Nautilus should have a superuser mode
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12154
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> Status in Nautilus: Confirmed
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> For the following moves:
> 1. can't change permissions of a different user or root. WHy not
> implement sudo prompt* here, instead of just "Access denied"?
>
> 2. can't move files into directories with root control on them, eg.,
> moving azureus from ~ (/home/user) to /opt or /usr/share. Again, a
> sudo prompt* should occur here. Moving files with the terminal is
> annoying.
>
> I think I read Red Hat is working on elminating the terminal recently
> as well...
>
> *sudo prompt because it's useful for us who use hte option "nopasswd"
> in /etc/sudoers :)
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65058:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65058
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