Right Click - Edit as root
Tony Arnold
tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Tue Sep 2 16:36:47 UTC 2008
Wade,
Wade Smart wrote:
> I finally took the plunge and moved from 7.04 to 8.04
> Two things I already miss are the numlockx and Right Click edit as root script.
>
> I need to copy over from my backup hd some files for dovecot and
> postfix but they are in root. Since apparently the right click script
> will no longer work how can I work as root on nautilus?
Alt-F2 and enter 'gksudo nautilus'. It will ask for your password and
then start up nautilus as root.
Regards,
Tony.
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