{"id":9474,"date":"2019-10-24T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:25:36","slug":"enable-open-as-admin-root-ubuntu-19-10-nautilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/enable-open-as-admin-root-ubuntu-19-10-nautilus\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable &#8216;Open as Admin (Root)&#8217; in Ubuntu 19.10 Nautilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tutorial shows beginners how to add &#8216;Open as Administrator&#8217; option in Nautilus file browser context menu (right-click menu) in Ubuntu 19.10.<\/p>\n<p>Want to open a file folder and\/or edit a file via root user account? Without running Linux command, you can do this by adding &#8216;<b>Open as Administrator<\/b>&#8216; or &#8216;<b>Edit as Administrator<\/b>&#8216; right-click menu option via <code>nautilus-admin<\/code> extension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin-600x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin-600x363.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin-450x272.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/open-as-admin.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> The <code>nautilus-admin<\/code> package is available in Ubuntu universe repository. Simply open <u>terminal<\/u> either from application menu or by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>When terminal opens, run command to install it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt install nautilus-admin<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nautilus-admin-600x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"124\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nautilus-admin-600x124.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nautilus-admin-450x93.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nautilus-admin.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Once installed the extension, restart Nautilus file browser via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">nautilus -q<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restart-nautilus-600x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"116\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restart-nautilus-600x116.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restart-nautilus-450x87.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restart-nautilus.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next time you open the file browser, you&#8217;ll see &#8216;<b>Open as Administrator<\/b>&#8216; context menu option for file folders, and &#8216;<b>Edit as Administrator<\/b>&#8216; option for documents.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows beginners how to add &#8216;Open as Administrator&#8217; option in Nautilus file browser context menu (right-click menu) in Ubuntu 19.10. Want to open a file folder and\/or edit a file via root user account? Without running Linux command, you can do this by adding &#8216;Open as Administrator&#8216; or &#8216;Edit as Administrator&#8216; right-click menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[670],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-open-as-administrator"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}