Lack of easy authentication for system files

[aysiu]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When a user with sudo privileges double-clicks a system file, she is unable to save it, and if it's read-only for root, then she is told she's "unable to open" said file.

Rather than being denied access, a user with sudo rights should have a dialogue that allows her to grant herself administrative privileges (should she wish to) to view or modify the file.

This dialogue would be similar to gDebi's dialogue allowing one to install .deb files with a double-click.

[Robert Wolterman (robert-wolterman)]

I can confirm the part about not being able to save the read only file, but the file did open when I double clicked it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.