Open as Administrator in Ubuntu

Handy Tutorial

Open As Administrator in Ubuntu 12.04 & 12.10

This tutorial is going to show you how to add ‘Open As Administrator’ in Nautilus’ context menu in Ubuntu 12.04 & 12.10. This will allow you to edit or modify files or folders with root or administrator permission.

For Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04, you can just install nautilus-gksu package from Ubuntu Software Center, then you get the ‘Open As Administrator’ option at next login. For Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, install nautilus-gksu and copy and paste libnautilus-gksu.so file from /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/ to /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/

Method 1: (not working for Ubuntu 12.10)

nautilus-gksu package has been dropped in Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 since “gksu” 2.0.2-6ubuntu1 release, so you can not install it easily. Here I’m going to use nautilus script to add Open As Administrator functionality.

First download the libnautilus-gksu.so file:

Click to Download libnautilus-gksu.so

Then, run gksudo nautilus in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to open file browser with root privilege, copy and paste this file to/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/. Or do it with this command:

sudo cp ~/Downloads/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/

Log out and back in, or run this command to take effect:

nautilus -q

Enjoy!

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/98489/how-can-i-elevate-nautilus-privileges-to-move-or-copy-a-folder-as-root