GUI-based tar.gz app cannot extract as superuser

[sivacevit]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Double-click on a .tar.gz file, then extract to a location that a normal user does not have access to. Instead of popping up a dialog asking for security credentials, it simply fails. I see no option for su-extracting files, so I assume the only way to extract files to a protected location is through the CLI.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 9 14:39:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: vmxnet
Package: file-roller 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: file-roller file:///home/jars/Desktop/xampp-linux-1.6.6.tar.gz
ProcCwd: /home/jars
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux jars-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's not currently possible, setting it as wishlist, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug should be sent to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589154