Authenticate to perform admin tasks [$100]

[Danielle Foré]

If I try to move, rename, paste, etc into folders I don't have permission to mess with, Marlin should ask me to authenticate and then perform those tasks.

[xapantu (xapantu)]

Do we really want the users to be able to move the system files?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

IMHO, it's better than running Marlin as root and not everyone is comfortable making changes in terminal.

[[e-mail] (jeanphilippe-green)]

Marlin uses gvfs, right? If we could implement policykit in gvfs, a lot of applications would benifit from it: Gedit (if you modify a text file you don't have permission to), Gimp (if you modify a wallpaper in /usr/share/wallpapers etc) and many other Gnome applications. I'm not sure if GNOME wants this feature since they probably don't believe the average user needs this. We either have to convince them, or we could fork gvfs and make our own.

Here's a bug report on GNOME bugzilla concidering this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561443

[Lewis Goddard (lewisgoddard)]

While this bug has lacked significant activity, it is obviously still relevant. It now has a $100 bounty on bountysource.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/967985-authenticate-to-perform-admin-tasks

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Okay, news on this. Cosimo is actually landing polkit support for GVFS soon. So that makes it very simple for us to just opt-in here by presenting a menu item for this functionality