This is a very difficult issue because it amounts to a fairly major feature change underneath. Every access has to be wrapped by a permissions check, followed by an authentication. Someone tried to patch this into the file manager a while back, but the patch never got approved.
The real bug is the GNOME bug. That's where most of the work happens, and that's where this bug has been prioritized out of scope for years. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12154 Title: Nautilus should have a superuser mode Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Confirmed Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/12154/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
