Open a password dialog if the user wants to copy files to a folder he has no permission for
If user A wants to copy a file from his home directory to, let's say, the /usr directory (or any other directory he has no permissions for), the file manager displays an error message:
"Error while copying to <pathname>"
You do not have permissions to write to this folder.
Now, in the terminal, using command "cp", he would get the same error (permission denied). Simple solution: add "sudo" in front of the command.
In the file manager, there is no equivalent to "sudo". It is simply impossible to copy a file to any directory he has no permissions for. Even if he knows the password, there is no possibility to enter the password.
Solution:
When displaying the error message, allow the user to enter the password to get temporary root rights.
Blueprint information
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- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
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- Direction:
- Needs approval
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- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Proposed for hardy
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Not started
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hardy-alpha-1
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Work on this is currently ongoing in upstream Nautilus, as part of the work on gio/gvfs: http://
similar to https:/
There should be a more fundamental solution to this problem. As I understand it, Ubuntu has the root account disabled by default, meaning it's meant more for 1 user home desktop systems than top-down 1 administrator -> 100 regular user systems. Getting this in Nautilus would be good, but it would also be good in, for instance, gedit, or file-roller, or whatever. In the current system, you'd have to quit out of gedit and run gksudo gedit in order to modify the files you wanted to modify.
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I'm sure there would be other administrative tasks that cannot be done using the GUI method because they require a terminal password. A password box for these kind of tasks should be a system-wide design principle in Hardy to aid the adoption of Ubuntu by less technically knowledgeable users. -AC
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I don't know if this helps, but maybe this can be implemented in a similar way as command-
For graphical software I think that this is not enough
