This one has always irritated the heck out of me, because I often don't know in advance of starting Nautilus that I'm going to want to change something in a root-owned file. But I've been resigned to it because I imagined there was some insuperable difficulty in implementing it. And when my students hit this problem I get a little defensive and tell them it's not the developers' fault, it's due to the restrictions in Linux that prevent processes gaining root, which would create a security risk.
I've recently switched to Crunchbang. Imagine my surprise when I found the file manager there can do what I want! The file manager is Thunar. So I googled for 'thunar privilege escalation' and found an interesting article: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/file-browser-privilege- escalation-done-right/ More than 9 years since this serious usability bug was filed. Almost 7 years since that psychocats article. The wonderful thing about open source development is the speed of progress, the way that problems are fixed quickly and systems are updated. Really? -- 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
