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[Bruno Nova <12154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those interested, I created a simple Nautilus extension that adds
"Open as Administrator" and "Edit as Administrator" entries to the
context menu.

It's in the official Ubuntu and Debian repositories.
Just enable the "backports" repository and install the "nautilus-admin" package.

Of course, this doesn't fix this bug! Nautilus really should ask for the
admin password when necessary, but I don't think this will ever be
implemented.

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Title:
  Nautilus should have a superuser mode

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in Nautilus:
  Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  For the following moves:
  1. can't change permissions of a different user or root.  WHy not 
  implement sudo prompt* here, instead of just "Access denied"?

  2. can't move files into directories with root control on them, eg., 
  moving azureus from ~ (/home/user) to /opt or /usr/share.  Again, a 
  sudo prompt* should occur here.  Moving files with the terminal is 
  annoying.

  I think I read Red Hat is working on elminating the terminal recently 
  as well...

  *sudo prompt because it's useful for us who use hte option "nopasswd" 
  in /etc/sudoers :)

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65058:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65058

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