Re: [gedit-list] Request: ask for adminpass when saving readonly files

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:48 +0100, Steve Fr�naux wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 11:22 +0100, Paolo Maggi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	
> > > When a user opens a file for which he does not have sufficient 
> > > privileges, the file opens as read-only.
> > > 
> > > Would it be possible to make gedit open a dialogue where the user can 
> > > type the login and password, when he begins to edit that readonly 
> > > file or when he uses the Save command to save the file.
> 
> This looks very important to me. Basically, people don't understand how
> to edit a file as root (actually, it's very hard to do). This is an
> obvious usability issue.

BTW this could probably become a SoC project, couldn't it ?