open nautilus as root

Raccoon1400 · 2009-01-02 20:28:29

I used to be able to run nautilus as root in gnome by typing "nautilus" in a root terminal
now, this still launches nautilus, but there are no root privileges.

How can I run nautilus as root?

sisco311 · 2009-01-02 20:51:39

are you logged in in the terminal as root?

whoami

in a non-root terminal

gksu nautilus

should run the app as root.

if you are using sudo, then change the authentication to sudo in gksu-properties

Last edited by sisco311 (2009-01-02 21:02:07)

Raccoon1400 · 2009-01-02 23:09:54

That doesn't work. Spits out this stuff

(nautilus:22152): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.

(nautilus:22152): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

and the second part appears several times

cdwillis · 2009-01-03 02:24:36

I know gksudo is the preferred way to do it, but can you just run nautilus with sudo instead?

Raccoon1400 · 2009-01-03 03:15:11

cdwillis wrote:

I know gksudo is the preferred way to do it, but can you just run nautilus with sudo instead?

I don't have sudo set up. I use su.
the method in the first post used to work, i think it stopped when I got gnome 2.24

cdwillis · 2009-01-03 03:59:16

I'd advise you to add yourself to the sudoers list then. Guess that would be why you can use gksudo either. Check out the wiki (beginners guide or install guide)

Raccoon1400 · 2009-01-03 14:55:13

cdwillis wrote:

I'd advise you to add yourself to the sudoers list then. Guess that would be why you can use gksudo either. Check out the wiki (beginners guide or install guide)

I can use su and gksu. They can launch anything as root, except nautilus doesn't have root permissions anymore when I launch it this way. It used to work. It probably has something to do with the error I posted a couple posts ago.

Super Jamie · 2009-01-03 15:09:32

make sure you're specifically telling nautilus not to draw the desktop or anything, i have all sorts of problems when just typing "nautilus"

try nautilus --no-desktop --browser as root, or when doing sudo/gksu/gksudo, that's how i always do it

mrunion · 2009-01-03 16:31:51

Same thing for me -- no more su to root, then running nautilus.

Raccoon1400 · 2009-01-07 00:03:00

bump

dr/owned · 2009-01-11 20:30:40

I was having this problem before as well...where running sudo nautilus and such was not working. I just started a root terminal, ran nautius...and now sudo nautilus works from my regular terminal.

Edit: Here's proof of it working

Last edited by dr/owned (2009-01-11 22:10:52)

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