Yeah, you'd have to be caushious(spell?), true. But, it shouldnt be That hard to implement, i guess, right?
On 7/15/05, Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:57 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote: > > smurfd wrote: > > > Hi! I just thought of one thing that would be very handy to have in > > > Nautilus. > > > A usage of gksu or similar to be able to achive root rights, when say > > > getting access denied when trying to access/delete a file/folder. > > > (specially delete) > > > > Yeah, I was thinking about this same issue this week. > > > > Here's a screenshot of the dialog that the Mac OS X Finder shows if you > > try to copy a file into a folder to which you do not have write-permissions: > > > > http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/gnome/osx-finder-auth.png > > > > I'm not sure about the wording, but it's great that it provides you an > > option (not the default, notably) to authenticate to complete the action > > (rather than having the start again via the command line). > > > > I'd love to see this in Nautilus. > > It sure would be nice. Its a lot of work though, and it has to be done > very carefully to not cause security issues. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > He's a scrappy Jewish inventor with a secret. She's a cynical blonde stripper > in the witness protection program. They fight crime! > > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
