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Nautilus permissions

Asked by chovynz

I'm requesting a place on the Nautilus GUI to input admin passwords.

I'm asking for this because I find it frustrating to have to go to terminal or shell to input commands (which I dont know yet as I'm a linux newbie) to do things as simple as create a new folder in any of the system folders (eg /etc).

Having a GUI admin input field would greatly help those of us who are still migrating from Windows. I do realise it may not be easy to implement something like this - what happens when there's 100-200 employees and one gets admin info that he shouldn't have? But for those of us on 1 user systems this funcionality would greatly help, I think.

Thanks for your time / thoughts on this issue.

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Mert Dirik (mertdirik) said : 		#1

It would great. Fortunately you can use this http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_open_files_as_root_user_via_right_click

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chovynz (chovynz) said : 		#2

Thanks. That helps. :)

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Ubuntu User (anotherubuntuuser) said : 		#3

I mostly use the ALT+F2 keyboard shortcut to open up the Run Application dialog and then I type:

gksudo nautilus

This prompts for your password and then opens nautilus as root.

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Jim Jones