For those interested, I created a simple Nautilus extension that adds "Open as Administrator" and "Edit as Administrator" entries to the context menu.
It's in the official Ubuntu and Debian repositories. Just enable the "backports" repository and install the "nautilus-admin" package. Of course, this doesn't fix this bug! Nautilus really should ask for the admin password when necessary, but I don't think this will ever be implemented. -- 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
