Can't able to open this file “admin://etc/sysctl.conf”? It says, “Unable to handle admin location”

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As u can see. At first its permission denied . And now "Unable to handle "admin: " locations.

From 60 to 10 is a decrease in swappiness. Is this what you want to do? — mchid, Jan 14 '19 at 17:36

pomsky · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-14 09:36:59Z

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You need to add admin:// to the beginning of the full path to your preferred file to use the GVfs admin backend.

Since you're trying to open the /etc/sysctl.conf file, you need to run

gedit admin:///etc/sysctl.conf

answered Jan 14 '19 at 9:36

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Well i did "gedit admin:///etc/sysctl.conf" without doing anything. It didn't do anything. – user889789 Jan 14 '19 at 9:41
same issue. Unable to handle admin.... – user889789 Jan 14 '19 at 9:43
@Prabeshbhattarai Then you probably don't have gvfs-backends installed. Install it first by running sudo apt install gvfs-backends, after that run gedit admin:///etc/sysctl.conf. – pomsky Jan 14 '19 at 9:48
The gvfs is already installed. It says, "** (gedit:20502): WARNING **: 15:38:54.588: The specified location is not mounted" – user889789 Jan 14 '19 at 9:54
is "admin" is a string that may differ from user to another ? – Marwan Sep 3 '19 at 12:50

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mchid · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-14 17:35:15Z

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Well, I don't know what was wrong but going manually through cd /etc and using sudo nano sysctl.conf to edit solved my issue.

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answered Jan 14 '19 at 10:02

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