** Changed in: nautilus
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389847
Title:
Allow user to authenticate when an operation fails because of lack of
permissions
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Invalid
Status in Nautilus:
Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
If the user performs an operation and it fails because of a lack of
permissions, the error dialog should not only inform the user of this
but also allow the user to Authenticate himself and retry the
operation.
"Pre" authentication is already in use in ubuntu in the form of the
"Unlock" button in admin dialogs.
Allowing the user to retry with more permissions will make life
easier.
A scenario of how this could be used:
A user tries to delete a file(s) created by root (using nautilus), the user
is then told that the operation failed on a particular file because of a lack
of permissions.
The error dialog will then present the options to either "skip", "skip
all", "cancel", "Authenticate" and "Authenticate All". When the
authenticate options are selected, the operation could be retried with
the user rights entered (can even reuse the Authenticate dialog).
"Authenticate All" option will allow the user to make use of the
permissions for the rest of the files.
This will save the user time because he no longer needs to go and
change the permissions manually after it failed.
See brainstorm idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15877/
Seems related to the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/387972
Note: The above behaviour can also apply to when a user is editing a
file in gedit that is located in an area where his current permissions
aren't sufficient. Instead of being stuck there user can be asked to
authenticate and have the operation retried.
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