newbie user/root dycotomy

[Russell Cook]

Hi Ari,
I do this now for those tasks that I need a file manager for and need 
root acces. I have a panel icon for a sudo Nautilus. Properties are 
Command "gksudo nautilus"

It works for me. I use a different icon so I dont' mix it up with my 
user mode Nautilus and have had no trouble with it (other than Nautilus' 
frequent crashes in any mode!) A nice tool, but not as stable as I'd like.

Kind Regards Russ
http://www.windsorcycles.com.au




Ari Torhamo wrote:

>to, 2005-01-20 kello 18:21 -0400, Douglas Alves kirjoitti:
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>>I've downloaded some packages from universe and elsewhere, and saved
>>them in my /home/.../Desktop but when I want to unpack them
>>in /usr/local I'm told I don't have permission!
>>
>>What would be the way to go?
>>(I'm trying to keep away from the Command line as much as possible)
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>>
>
>Here's another newbie who wants to keep away from the command line :-) I
>guess you might run Nautilus with root privileges, but when I once asked
>about this someone said that doing this is definitely a no-no - I don't
>know why. It would be good to be able to do "sudo" in Nautilus - you
>would just give your password as you do when you launch Synaptic and
>then just start messing up your system. We GUI people just are not
>(yet?) equal with CLI people ;-) Ayway, I think you need root
>priviledges for doing anything outside your home directory.
>
>I'm sorry that I can't give you much more than sympathy here. Maybe
>people who actually know something will tell you more.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ari Torhamo
>
>
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