Gksu in 14.04?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:03 PM, W Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 11:59 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> You can do that, but a better option is probably to su to root (or
>> sudo -i) and run nautilus from there.
>>
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>
> The problem with this solution is that it can mess up file ownership in
> the users home directory.
>

Then do 'su -' and that won't be an issue.

This seems like an artificial problem.  Again I have to wonder why you
need to run the file manager as root.