On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:41 -0500, Rich Renomeron wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 18:16 -0500, Michael E. Crute wrote: > > > I would like to be able to do this with Gnome so that the file manager > > can run as root until I tell it to "forget the user authorization". > > Right now I have two alternatives, log in to Gnome as root or use a > > command prompt neither of which I want to do. > > It's cheesy, but it will work: > > ssh -Y root@localhost nautilus --no-desktop --browser > > Gnome seems to intercept the ssh process and pop up a dialog for the > appropriate password password. I tried it from Actions->Run > application, which means if you go to the trouble to make a launcher > (.desktop file) for it, it should work too. The -Y makes the X > forwarding work. > > For others on the list who aren't opposed to having a shell window open, > you can also look into using sudo, which can let you run most any > command as root when you need to, with varying degrees of control over > which commands are allowed and who can run them, and whether or not they > need to enter (their personal) password, and other things. Handy for > when you need to edit a config file, but don't feel like opening a full > root shell, or when you trust someone to do a specific admin task, but > don't want to share the root password. > > Good luck, > Rich > > -- > From the Notebook of Rich Renomeron > Sick of popups? Use Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org/firefox > My very crude answer to this is a simple script in my home directory that calls sudo to open nautilus --nodesktop. I have my /etc/sudoers set to require my password. I also set up a custom launcher on the GNOME panel that calls the script. Double click on the launcher, it prompts for my password, then I have a root nautilus window. Crude and Kludgy but it works MC
