Bug 163471

Summary:	Add a menu entry for launching nautilus as a administrator/root user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4	CC:	mclasen, smohan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/nautilus-super.html
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2005-07-17 20:05:19 UTC

Actual results:


Currently the way to access nautilus as root user would be launch it from the
terminal as su -


Expected results:

Have an entry by default in the desktop as described in the link

Additional info:

Sometimes it is useful for changing permissions or moving files in system
directories

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2005-07-19 14:39:11 UTC

We don't want the user to ever need to run Nautilus as the root user. It's not
useful either to have terminology in the desktop with words such as "root" or
"administrator" - users wont understand it. 

Btw, we don't even need this for all desktop use cases anyway by just only
allowing the console user to do certain privileged operations (yes, there's a
few bugs left where we do ask for the root password, e.g. package updates,
setting timezone etc.). Patches for fixing said bugs are welcome.