Right Click - Edit as root

[Wade Smart]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 09/02/2008 09:24 AM, 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?
>>
>
> As others have mentioned you can open nautilus as gksu. However, if you
> want the right-click edit as administrator back you can install
> nautilus-gksu:
>
> sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu
>
> Logout and log back in. Now when you want to edit, for example,
> /etc/fstab just go to that in Nautilus and right-click. You will then
> see an option to "Open as administrator", click that and the file will
> be opened in gedit with root permissions so that you can edit and save
> back to /etc. It will also create a backup /etc/fstab~ that you can fall
> back on incase something doesn't work with the new edits.
>
>
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Thanks NoOp! That is what I was looking for.
You must be just a little bit psychic. Every time I have a problem you
host an answer that gets me moving.  Though you dont always post to my
questions - the answers are always there.

Thanks.

Wade