root has less menus

[Daniel Carrera]

Kent Borg wrote:
>> You don't need to login as root for that. Type 'sudo nautilus'.
> 
> I didn't dare try that.  Figuring nautilus was too much a part of my
> whole graphical environment, I feared it would get pissed having two
> different users at once.  It actually works, you've done it?  (I still
> assume that dragging between windows of different users is a bad idea.
> Which user would my hand be??)

It works if you don't drag and drop files from one window to another 
that is running as a different user. If you just select the file and hit 
"delete" it works. That moves the file to root's Trash. To see root's 
Trash when you're done, choose "Go >> Trash". Though I admit I can't 
figure out how to clear the trash from Nautilus.

Moving files across different users would indeed be inadvisable. I just 
tried it out of curiosity. It looks like the permissions that count are 
the ones of the *destination* window. That's interesting.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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