How to Open Directories as Administrator in Nautilus

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I want to have a root privileges on some directories. How can I do this?

Best Answer

You can do that in many ways:

  • Log in as root

  • Open nautilus as a root

    gksu nautilus
    
  • You can add "Open as administrator" as an extension to your right click:

    1. Download the nautilus-gksu package for your architecture from either of these 2 locations, and save it in your downloads folder.

      32 bit: Direct link from ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl

      64 bit: Direct link from ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl

    2. On your 64 bit install downloaded nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb & extracted right in your Downloads folder

      sudo cp ~/Downloads/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0
      
    3. On your 32 bit install downloaded nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_i386.deb & again extracted in Downloads folder so terminal command

      sudo cp ~/Downloads/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_i386/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0