Bug 75655

Summary: Proposal for nautilus running as root
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Component: nautilusAssignee: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 8.0CC: alexl, srevivo
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Description Gérard Milmeister 2002-10-10 18:52:14 UTC
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Description of problem:
You can run nautilus has root, but it works only well if you use the
--no-desktop option.
My proposal is to add a command nautilus-root, that would start up with the
--no-desktop option, and authentifying using pam.
I could do that myself using a script and creating a corresponding file in
pam.d, but of course shell scripts are too unsecure to do this. So a complete
setup with binary and a menu entry, plus a clear look for the nautilus window,
that identifies it as root, would be useful addition to RedHat.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-10 19:05:31 UTC
Personally I would not do this (I'd expect nautilus to do things like drop
metadata under /usr...)

But of course it should be made to work, as you should be able to do root 
tasks without using the command line.

Comment 2 Gérard Milmeister 2002-10-10 22:35:00 UTC
Yes, you are right of course. There could be a special root nautilus mode, that
might implement some access properties like in sudo.


Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2004-10-04 12:50:06 UTC
It would be nice in general to have better ways to handle operations
that need root in the GUI. I'm not sure running a whole nautilus as
root is a good idea. 

Anyway, this has to be solved upstream. Upstream already know about
this issue, so I'm just gonna close this bug for now. Thanks for your
comments.