Comment 0 for bug 1288448

Recently, I received a prompt indicating that dropbox needed super user permissions. I found this strange as dropbox should only need access to folders and files owned by my user. A quick google search turned up the following:

http://blog.ishans.info/2013/12/26/fixing-authentication-is-needed-to-run-usrbindropbox-as-the-super-user-error-in-linux/

The referenced fix:

diff --git a/dropbox b/dropbox
index e4f2bfc..c087b71 100755
--- a/dropbox
+++ b/dropbox
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ GPG_WARNING = u"Note: python-gpgme is not installed, we will n
 DOWNLOADING = u"Downloading Dropbox... %d%%"
 UNPACKING = u"Unpacking Dropbox... %d%%"

-PARENT_DIR = os.path.expanduser("/var/lib/dropbox")
+PARENT_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~")
 DROPBOXD_PATH = "%s/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" % PARENT_DIR
 DESKTOP_FILE = u"/usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop"

 does indeed appear to work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus-dropbox 1.4.0-3ubuntu0.13.10.1 [modified: usr/bin/dropbox]
Uname: Linux 3.13.5-ar-dc0ead5 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 5 14:39:54 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2009-12-21 (1535 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus-dropbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-04 (121 days ago)