Dropbox requesting superuser

[Primus1]

Hi, booted my computer today (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) and a box came up saying Dropbox was asking to be superuser. This has not happened before so I'm wondering if it's ok. I did not click 'Authenticate' instead I clicked 'Cancel'. The box closed and the computer seems to be running ok. I have attached a screen capture of the pop up box. If it happens again will it be ok to allow Dropbox next time? Wondering if it's a virus or something like that. Thanks.

[kc1di]

how was dropbox installed?

Try reinstalling it with the following terminal commands

sudo apt-get purge dropbox
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

alternatively you can open a filemanager as root and go to /usr/share/applications/dropbox and make sure the luncher command is

dropbox start -i

[Primus1]

Thanks for your reply,

can't see any filemanager, opened 'search' and got no results for 'filemanager'

put this in the Terminal:

/usr/share/applications/dropbox

the result was:

bash: /usr/share/applications/dropbox: No such file or directory

must be doing something wrong.


Looking in ubuntu software manager seems I installed nautilus dropbox extension from there and it downloaded the proprietary dropbox binary.

Would it have been dangerous for me to have allowed dropbox the superuser it requested?

[kc1di]

file manager is Nuatilus in Ubuntu It where you navigate to your folders at.

I believe you have to enter your root password to get dropbox to download and install after that you will not have to do that again.
Cheers

[Primus1]

Thanks kc1di

[buzzingrobot]

A quick Google query will uncover a number of posts, and potential solutions, to this issue.

Seems to be rather random, involving the Dropbox files not being installed in the user's home folder. Might be worth just removing and reinstalling it.

[vasa1]

I don't use Nautilus and so installed Dropbox following the instructions here: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

Everything is in my home folder.

[buzzingrobot]

The thumbnail shows /usr/bin/dropbox is requesting authorization. Does it exist?

[Primus1]

The thumbnail shows /usr/bin/dropbox is requesting authorization. Does it exist?

Hi, I've been looking around this forum and it seems this issue has happened to others (sorry I didn't find this before i posted). There are some methods to sort it but they are too technical for me to understand. I may have to find an alternative to dropbox.

To answer your question does dropbox exist? Do you mean this in user/bin - see attached image:

[vasa1]

...
To answer your question does dropbox exist? Do you mean this in user/bin - see attached image:

Another way to convey that information could be to run

ls -al | grep dropbox

or

ls -alR | grep dropbox

from the relevant folder and to post the output here between code tags.