gksudo nautilus - Open As Administrator - Right Click

h311sdr0id · 05-15-2013, 02:47 AM

For new Wheezy Release (Edited)

Just some info already around (Thanks caravel) . Just would like to share it works with the new Wheezy as well.

Steps to Re-Create:

1. Download a nautilus-gksu_2.0.0-5ubuntu2_amd64 (or one alike)

2. Open the directory "/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0" with admin/root privilages

(I think "sudo cp /home/YOUR-USERNAME/Downloads/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/" will work as well if you put your username in and make sure the file is in your "Download" directory)

3. Then restart Nautilus with "nautilus -q"

4. That was it

Thanks

cynwulf · 05-15-2013, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h311sdr0id

PLEASE give me credit if you share this method with anyone else. I can't demand you to, but it would be nice due to the hours and hours it took me to come to this finding.

A pity you spent hours on that instead of searching the web:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/78116...-nautilus-gone
http://www.distrogeeks.com/add-open-admin-mint-linux/
http://handytutorial.com/open-as-adm...u-12-04-12-10/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1886068
etc...

gksu is no longer being developed
http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/

h311sdr0id · 05-15-2013, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caravel

A pity you spent hours on that instead of searching the web:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/78116...-nautilus-gone
http://www.distrogeeks.com/add-open-admin-mint-linux/
http://handytutorial.com/open-as-adm...u-12-04-12-10/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1886068
etc...

gksu is no longer being developed
http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/

Lol, I had searched the web....

Where I am at, I only have limited access to the net/search engines.

I guess I have just been used to the situation here and thought of everyone else over here.

Maybe others in the same situation as me will find it useful. I had been searching for days and have found nada.

But thank you that was just as easy !!!

Cheers

h311sdr0id

cynwulf · 05-15-2013, 05:12 AM

You may be aware, but nautilus-gksu is available in squeeze. The dependencies look ok, so you could just repack it to install to the extensions-3.0 directory (or you could grab the source and just rebuild it properly). You certainly don't need the 'buntu package.

As for security concerns - it's not being developed so the risk is all yours. You may want to read

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654184
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gksu...0T171717Z.html

Or to cut a long story short - "nautilus should not be run as root"