Bug#785247: ITP: nautilus-admin -- Extension for Nautilus to do administrative operations
On Thu, 14 May 2015 10:26:31 +0100 Bruno Nova <brunomb.nova@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2015 12:27:38 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> > I don't think running full applications like nautilus/gedit as root is
> > a good idea.
>
> I know it's dangerous, especially running a file manager as root. But
> it's the easiest way for beginners to do things like editing system
> configuration files.
> Linux file managers should ask for admin authentication when root
> privileges are required (like what the Windows file manager does), but
> unfortunately they don't do that yet.
>
> I'm open to suggestions, and I would understand if this wasn't accepted.
>
>
Sorry, I clicked Reply and forgot to add your e-mail to the "To" field.
I'm going to add a warning to the package description (the warning that
is in the README.mkd file).
I'm also going to change the code, as upstream, to display a warning
message on the first time one of the actions is clicked, to warn the
user of the risks.
Suggestions, opinions and code reviews are welcome!
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