Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34634
Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
I know that this bug report is propably duplicate of some other reports
but I would like to bring this problem to mind again. Because it's still
unersolved.
The problem is that there is no easy way to copy/move/edit files owned
by some other user.
I know that it is hard to implement and it can be dangerous but I also
think that this is really confusing for users that they need to use
console tools or some other tricks to copy/move files between accounts
or to put files in system folders owned by root or some other user.
And I know that by default your(by 'your' I mean: developer/admin)
answer is "don't do this"
But it's not so easy.
Just few examples:
- I want to create website on my localhost machine, so I install apache2
with /var/www as default server root - then I want to create for example
index.html page and.... how can I put this file with nautilus in my
/var/www?
- I installed mldonkey-server which has /usr/lib/mldonkey/incoming as
default directory for incoming files - then I want to _move_ downloaded
files to my home dir... again no easy way to do this with nautilus
- I'm sudo'er and I want to edit for example /etc/samba/smb.conf - again
no easy way to open _and edit_ this file from nautilus with for example
gedit or some other editor - and I know my superuser password, I can to
edit this file with some command line tool - but not with nautlus as
file manager.
I could show more examples but you propably know what is the problem
already. This bug is really really old and this feature should be
implemented at last.
So please take a look at this again and make nautilus more usable and
flexible to users that are admins and sudoers.
Marcin
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