open as administrator

**rokikish** · October 31st, 2013

how do i get "open as administrator" for ubuntu 13.10.

**whitesmith** · October 31st, 2013

One of the reasons Windows is so insecure is that it allows--even courts!--such dangerous behavior. If you want to "open as administrator" you'll have to open a terminal and do something like

Code:

sudo myprog

If myprog has a pretty GUI, then do this:

Code:

gksudo myprog

Imagine how hard it would be for a virusmonger to do this without being noticed! What you gain from not having an "open as administrator" option is security. That's how Linux is built.

**oldos2er** · October 31st, 2013

See http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...3-10-nautilus/
Warning: I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea whether it works or not. Caveat emptor.

**ajgreeny** · November 1st, 2013

I don't think this is anything new in 13.10, is it?

Prior to 12.04 there was a package called nautilus-gksu or gksu-nautilus, I can't remember, which did this for us but no longer available so since 12.04 a script has been needed which I have added it to my system. My script is much simpler than the one shown in the link above, but as I am not using 13.10, I don't know if it will work in that version of nautilus.

Code:

for uri in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS; do
gksudo "gnome-open $uri" &
done

You could edit the second line of the script to gksudo "exo-open $uri" & if not using gnome, but if you have nautilus instaslled I think the gnome-open will work.