How to open directories as administrator?

Question

I want to have a root previleges on some directories. howto?

Answer 1

You can do that in many ways:

1.login as root

2.open nautilus as a root

gksu nautilus

3.You can add "Open as administrator" as an extension to your right click:

i-Download the nautilus-gksu package for your architecture from either of these 2 locations, and save it in your downloads folder.

32 bit- Direct link from ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl

64 bit- Direct link from ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl

ii-On your 64 bit install downloaded nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb & extracted right in your Downloads folder

sudo cp ~/Downloads/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0

iii-On your 32 bit install downloaded nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_i386.deb & again extracted in Downloads folder so terminal command

sudo cp ~/Downloads/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_i386/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0  

Answer 2

sudo nautilus /path/to/folder/