Public bug reported:
Steps to reproduce:
- In Nautilus, Navigate to a folder that contains some file of which you are
not the owner and for which you don't have write permissions
- either Select such a file and hit the "delete" key
- OR right click on it and select "move to trash"
Expected behavior: a prompt should appear warning that you don't have
enough privileges and allowing you to ENTER YOUR PASSWORD and perform
the action in a sudo.
Observed behavior: the action obviously fails because of denied access,
you get an error but no option at all to enter the password and confirm
you want to do that as root.
The same applies to navigating into directories for which you don't have read
(or is it execute?) permissions. Instead of just denying you to view their
contents, it sould prompt you for the sudo password, or allow you to do so, for
example by providing an entry in the right-click dropdown menu that would be
something like "open as root", or whatever (maybe with some special icon next
to it) that would prompt you for the password.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 19 13:26:35 2012
GsettingsChanges:
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '1249x780+189+91'
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 180
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (154 days ago)
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise running-unity
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Title:
Nautilus doesn't allow you to enter the sudo password and perform as
root actions for which you don't have permissions
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