nautilus-admin

nautilus-admin

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, 
because it needs root rights.
I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, 
e.g. when I want to copy all directories at once.
I don’t know the command for it.

In "nautilus" Gnome there is an extension "nautilus-admin" which allows 
users to use root rights in the GUI using nautilus.
But this package "nautilus-admin" is not packed in guix.

Could somebody pack it for Guix?
I can’t do that.

Kind regards

Gottfried


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Re: nautilus-admin

[(]

Hi,

Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi,
>
> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because
> it needs root rights.
> I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when
> I want to copy all directories at once.
> I don’t know the command for it.

What do you mean, specifically, by "copying all directories at once"?
If you mean copying everything in a specific directory, you could try:

  sudo cp ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY/* HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY

This command uses a /wildcard/, *, which expands the word
'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY' to multiple words, one for each member of
'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY'.

If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:

  sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY

Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
you take the time to learn about them :)

Re: nautilus-admin

[Wojtek Kosior via]

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> If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
> 
>   sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY

Also, add the `-r` flag to `cp` when copying directories. Without this
flag, this command will refuse to include the contents of source
directories in the copy being made.

It'll look like

    sudo cp -r DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY

Wojtek

P.S. Good luck finding a packager for nautilus-admin. Unfortunately, I
cannot do this

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:41:35 +0100
"(" <paren@disroot.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because
> > it needs root rights.
> > I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when
> > I want to copy all directories at once.
> > I don’t know the command for it.  
> 
> What do you mean, specifically, by "copying all directories at once"?
> If you mean copying everything in a specific directory, you could try:
> 
>   sudo cp ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY/* HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> 
> This command uses a /wildcard/, *, which expands the word
> 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY' to multiple words, one for each member of
> 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY'.
> 
> If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
> 
>   sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> 
> Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
> you take the time to learn about them :)
> 



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Re: nautilus-admin

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

I mean to copy everything, all directories and files including all 
sub-directories (which are 40 directories and 40 files) on the external 
harddrive /SD-Card to an other external hard drive

> If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
>> 
>>    sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY


I don’t want to write every of the 40 directories and of the 40 files by 
hand but think
there is a command to copy all at once.

I was looking on the internet for this,
but didn’t find any command.

> Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
>> you take the time to learn about them :)

I have a book about Terminal commands,
but there I couldn’t find what I need.


Kind regards

Gottfried



Am 12.04.23 um 16:41 schrieb (:
> Hi,
> 
> Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
>> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because
>> it needs root rights.
>> I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when
>> I want to copy all directories at once.
>> I don’t know the command for it.
> 
> What do you mean, specifically, by "copying all directories at once"?
> If you mean copying everything in a specific directory, you could try:
> 
>    sudo cp ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY/* HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> 
> This command uses a /wildcard/, *, which expands the word
> 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY' to multiple words, one for each member of
> 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY'.
> 
> If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
> 
>    sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> 
> Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
> you take the time to learn about them :)

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Re: nautilus-admin

[carl hansen]

cp -a   somedir/   wheresomedirshouldgo/
-a  "archive" means
Recursive
create links
preserve times, ownership


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 8:28 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I mean to copy everything, all directories and files including all
> sub-directories (which are 40 directories and 40 files) on the external
> harddrive /SD-Card to an other external hard drive
>
> > If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
> >>
> >>    sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
>
>
> I don’t want to write every of the 40 directories and of the 40 files by
> hand but think
> there is a command to copy all at once.
>
> I was looking on the internet for this,
> but didn’t find any command.
>
> > Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
> >> you take the time to learn about them :)
>
> I have a book about Terminal commands,
> but there I couldn’t find what I need.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Gottfried
>
>
>
> Am 12.04.23 um 16:41 schrieb (:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> >> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because
> >> it needs root rights.
> >> I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when
> >> I want to copy all directories at once.
> >> I don’t know the command for it.
> >
> > What do you mean, specifically, by "copying all directories at once"?
> > If you mean copying everything in a specific directory, you could try:
> >
> >    sudo cp ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY/* HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> >
> > This command uses a /wildcard/, *, which expands the word
> > 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY' to multiple words, one for each member of
> > 'ORIGINAL-DIRECTORY'.
> >
> > If you mean copying multiple directories, just do:
> >
> >    sudo cp DIRECTORY-1 DIRECTORY-2 DIRECTORY-3 HARDDRIVE-DIRECTORY
> >
> > Commands aren't as scary as they seem from afar.  I'd highly recommend
> > you take the time to learn about them :)
>
> --
>
>
>

Re: nautilus-admin

[Felix Lechner via]

Hi Gottfried,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive,
> because it needs root rights.

Mounting hard drives is generally a privileged operation, but a lot of
people use external storage. I believe Gnome can make such storage
available to a user who is logged in. Have you looked into gvfs? [1]

FUSE stands for "file system in user space." [2]

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/kn-in/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/administering_the_system_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/managing-storage-volumes-in-gnome_administering-the-system-using-the-gnome-desktop-environment
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

Re: nautilus-admin

[Gottfried]

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Hi,
thanks for help.

I tried to open the network and connect to the external harddisk via 
USB-port but I can’t change the options for Zugriffsrechte/rights for it.
So I can’t create a directory on the ext.harddrive.

May be there is a package missing.
I am using MATE desktop.

I don’t know how to use gvfs.
bash says gvfs is not found.

Then I installed gvfs
but still
bash says gvfs is not found.
I don’t know how to include it into PATH.

If I enter networking I can open with the file manager the external 
harddrive, but still I can not create a new directory

I don’t know enough about networking.



Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 13.04.23 um 06:19 schrieb Felix Lechner:
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>>
>> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive,
>> because it needs root rights.
> 
> Mounting hard drives is generally a privileged operation, but a lot of
> people use external storage. I believe Gnome can make such storage
> available to a user who is logged in. Have you looked into gvfs? [1]
> 
> FUSE stands for "file system in user space." [2]
> 
> Kind regards
> Felix Lechner
> 
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/kn-in/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/administering_the_system_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/managing-storage-volumes-in-gnome_administering-the-system-using-the-gnome-desktop-environment
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

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Re: nautilus-admin

[Marek Paśnikowski]

Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>:

> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive,
> because it needs root rights.

It needs root rights because of wrong permissions set to the root of the external drive.

$ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/drive # should allow you to effortlessly perform future transfers

I also suggest to check ownerships of the existing folders - there is a chance they belong to root now.

Re: nautilus-admin

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

thanks for this hint.

I can use caja /MATE desktop
sudo caja  and then I can enter the external harddrive with sudo rights 
and create directories etc.


Kind regards

Gottfried



Am 12.04.23 um 16:59 schrieb guix.gnu.org-p@trilingual.eu:
> 
> 12 Apr 2023 16:39:24 Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because it needs root rights.
>> I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when I want to copy all directories at once.
>> I don’t know the command for it.
>>
>> In "nautilus" Gnome there is an extension "nautilus-admin" which allows users to use root rights in the GUI using nautilus.
>> But this package "nautilus-admin" is not packed in guix.
>>
>> Could somebody pack it for Guix?
>> I can’t do that.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Gottfried
> Hi Gottfried,
> as a workaround you could start nautilus as root from a terminal by typing "sudo nautilus".
> 
> --
> Pascal

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