Re: feature request!

[smurfd <smurfd gmail com>]

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 <alexl redhat com> 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.
> 
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