Re: Launching Nautilus as su?

Hi Giorgos;

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 18:17 +0300, Giorgos wrote:
Hi! :-)

THANKS to Adam and Tim for their help! ;-)

I didn't made it! I tried the suggested options among some similar ones (eg.
gk, gnomesu etc.).

All of them are failing after su pwd confirmation. I think maybe is a
general mistake of opensuse (which I'm using) or a specific one for my
hardware configuration.

I'm thinking to try a different distribution, just to be sure.

I have a script that works for me. I am using Fedora 7 and it worked on
FC6. I can't see how opensuse would make a difference. All the
commands are at the bash and Gnome level.

#! /bin/bash
# Open nautilus as root
# file name: RootBrowse
# -K starts new timestamp for sudo

sudo -K
zenity --entry \
--title="Browse files as root" \
--text="Enter your user _password:" \
--entry-text "" \
--hide-text |sudo -S nautilus --no-desktop --browser \
1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
zenity --error --text="Sorry, wrong password"
exit 1
fi

# End

N.B. Be sure to change sudoers default, as root, so that "Defaults
requiretty" is commented out otherwise script fails trying to give you a
new tty. See example below.

# Defaults specification
#
# Disable "ssh hostname sudo <cmd>", because it will show the password
in clear.
# You have to run "ssh -t hostname sudo <cmd>".
# "Ignore above comments for local machine."

# Defaults requiretty


--
Regards Bill

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