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Is there a way to add "Run as Sudo" to context menu like with Windows? (lemy.lol)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by flork@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there's an easy way. I am running Ubuntu. There is no specific use case, it is just a feature I miss from windows.

EDIT: I always expect a degree of hostility and talking-down from the desktop Linux community, but the number of people in this thread telling me I am using my own computer that I bought with my own money in a way they don't prefer while ignoring my question is just absurd and frankly should be deeply embarrassing for all of us. I have strongly defended the desktop Linux community for decades, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.

Thank you to the few of you who tried to assist without judgement or assumptions.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a permissions problem not a run as root problem.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That was also my take. If it's something you should be able to edit, your user should have permissions to do that. Jumping to running as root every time has lots of unintended consequences.

I do think a functionally similar idea would be a button to "take ownership" (grant "/r/w/x") of a file that would prompt for root password. That way things don't run as root that shouldn't. Would that be a good compromise between Linux permissions and Windows workflow?

Regarding formatting a drive, whatever program you are doing that in should ask for root p/w when performing that operation. If it just refuses because of permissions that seems like a bug.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that a feature that's already implemented? The alternative is you could run chown -R [username] . in the correct directory.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's what I'm thinking. A menu entry that just runs chown -R [username] on whatever you click is the idea

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

That's would work but it would be kind of dangerous