Re: Launching Nautilus as su?

[John Jason Jordan <johnxj comcast net>]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:23:33 +0100
"Tim Sheridan" <tim sheridan gmail com> dijo:

> On 7/20/07, Giorgos <giorgos67 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi! :-)
> >
> > Does somebody know, how can I launch nautilus, as su?
> > I'm launching nautilus, as a normal user, and not surprisingly, copy-pasting
> > is greyed out at many folders.
> > OK, I'm always able to work with bash. I just wanted to avoid the so much
> > keyboarding . :-)
> > (I have installed here the latest stable version of opensuse (with gnome
> > desktop), but I couldn't found this option).
> >
> > THANKS!!!
> > Giorgos. :-)
> 
> Hi Giorgos,
> 
> The following should do you just fine:
> 
> $ su -c "nautilus --no-desktop --browser"
> 
> I don't know whether opensuse doesn't give root access by default but
> if that won't work then using sudo instead should work:
> 
> $ sudo nautilus --no-desktop --browser
> 
> (For me, this method stops a GnomeUI warning about an authentication
> error against the session manager appearing too.)

I'm using Ubuntu Feisty amd64 with Gnome desktop, and all I had to do
was open a terminal and type "sudo nautilus." After giving it the root
password Nautilus opened up as always, except I was root so I could
copy, move or delete any file. Actually, almost always the reason I
need a root Nautilus is so I can fix permissions.

If I needed to do it often I'd just create a launch menu item for it.