How Do I Run GNOME Nautilus As Root?

How do I run Nautilus as a root user if logged in as a regular user?
There was a switch on KDE Konqueror to do that, I believe.

BTW, I don't want to run it with a command line unless it's a script.

I'm running RH9 and Nautilus 2.2.1.

In article <25d8d6a8.0307310653.172cf0f2@posting.google.com >, Google Mike wrote:
> How do I run Nautilus as a root user if logged in as a regular user?

why would you want to do that?

> BTW, I don't want to run it with a command line unless it's a script.

?

man xauth
man xhost
man google

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:25 -0500, armin walland wrote:

> In article <25d8d6a8.0307310653.172cf0f2@posting.google.com >, Google Mike wrote:
>> How do I run Nautilus as a root user if logged in as a regular user?
>
> why would you want to do that?

What does it matter?

Maybe to easily change file permission...
>
>> BTW, I don't want to run it with a command line unless it's a script.
>
> ?
>
> man xauth
> man xhost
> man google

Nice typical non-answer.
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Rick

Rick <rick@none.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:25 -0500, armin walland wrote:

>> In article <25d8d6a8.0307310653.172cf0f2@posting.google.com >, Google Mike wrote:
>>> How do I run Nautilus as a root user if logged in as a regular user?
>>
>> why would you want to do that?

> What does it matter?

Because the question is silly (as in "how do I eat a battleship"). You
had better have a good excuse for anyone to bother themselves with
telling you how.

> Maybe to easily change file permission...

sudo chmod 644 foo/bar

Nope. That wasn't a good excuse.

>>> BTW, I don't want to run it with a command line unless it's a script.
>>
>> man xauth
>> man xhost
>> man google

> Nice typical non-answer.

Works for me. (must not, no must not! Must not read the page for xauth
again ...).

Peter

In article <bqibgb.r2e.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Rick <rick@none.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:25 -0500, armin walland wrote:
>
>>> In article <25d8d6a8.0307310653.172cf0f2@posting.google.com >, Google Mike wrote:
>>>> How do I run Nautilus as a root user if logged in as a regular user?
>>>
>>> why would you want to do that?
>
>> What does it matter?
>
> Because the question is silly (as in "how do I eat a battleship"). You
> had better have a good excuse for anyone to bother themselves with
> telling you how.

And, to clarify Peter's answer (if they ever need much clarifying), if you
don't know how to do it, you don't actually _want_ to.

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