Re: Launching Nautilus as su?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

Στις 21-07-2007, ημέρα Σαβ, και ώρα 13:32 -0400, ο/η William Case
έγραψε:
> Hi Giorgos;
> 
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 18:17 +0300, Giorgos wrote:
> > Hi! :-)
> > 
> > THANKS to Adam and Tim for their help! ;-)
> > 
> > I didn't made it! I tried the suggested options among some similar ones (eg. 
> > gk, gnomesu etc.).
> > 
> > All of them are failing after su pwd confirmation. I think maybe is a 
> > general mistake of opensuse (which I'm using) or a specific one for my 
> > hardware configuration.
> > 
> > I'm thinking to try a different distribution, just to be sure.
> 
> I have a script that works for me.  I am using Fedora 7 and it worked on
> FC6.  I can't see how opensuse would make a difference.  All the
> commands are at the bash and Gnome level.
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> # Open nautilus as root
> # file name: RootBrowse
> # -K starts new timestamp for sudo
> 
> sudo -K  			
> zenity --entry \
> 	--title="Browse files as root" \
>     --text="Enter your user _password:" \
>     --entry-text "" \
>     --hide-text |sudo -S nautilus --no-desktop --browser \
>      1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>     
> if  [ "$?" != 0 ]; then 
> 	zenity --error --text="Sorry, wrong password"
> 	exit 1
> fi	    
> 
> # End
> 
> N.B.  Be sure to change sudoers default, as root, so that "Defaults
> requiretty" is commented out otherwise script fails trying to give you a
> new tty.  See example below.
> 
> # Defaults specification
> #
> # Disable "ssh hostname sudo <cmd>", because it will show the password
> in clear. 
> #  You have to run "ssh -t hostname sudo <cmd>".
> #  "Ignore above comments for local machine."
> 
> # Defaults    requiretty
> 

Doesn't OpenSUSE have "gksudo" ("gksu")?
It come by default with Ubuntu.

If this is a useful feature to have by default in GNOME, then it would
be good to explore adaptations to gksudo. For example, to differentiate
between normal nautilus windows and "gksudo" windows, it would be nice
to have the window theme change, become a big goldish like the location
bar in Firefox for https websites.

You can visit http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and request such features!

Simos