File Manager question..

[swingarm]

I'm running Blackbox on top of Gentoo 1.4rc1. I'm using Endeavour2 as a File Manager and it's fine except for one thing, when I'm running as a user and want to do a file function(move, copy, rename,...etc) it brings up a dialog box saying I don't have permission to do that. I then went into the setup for Endeavour2 to see if there was anything I could change or add that would bring up a login dialog box if I attempted to that file function again, no luck. I tried other File Managers such as Xplore, Gentoo and emelFM with no luck. Is there a file manager(preferably GUI based) that would, for example, bring up a dialog box asking for a username and password rather than a "You can't do that" box. If there are any other solutions I would also like to hear those too.

[JDRipper]

You should be able to open a terminal window such as xterm and type su and then, enter the root password and launch the filemanager of your choice from the command line with root permissions. If you try gentoo, it will respond with the command line switch that you will need to type to give it root permissions. I believe that would be: gentoo --root-ok.
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[swingarm]

I probably should've menetioned this in my original post but I know about doing the su(or sudo) thing in a terminal window to get the required permissions, I was just hoping that there was a Linux GUI File Manager out there that would have something built into it to allow me to change permissions for the function I am doing.

[oniq]

[JDRipper]

Nautilus has the ability to run user created scripts. Go to:
http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/
for instructions on how to create and use these scripts. Also, KDE can bring up a prompt for the root password by preceding a program with kdesu.
e.g. # kdesu konqueror
Gnome has a utility program called gdialog that makes custom dialog boxes very easy to create and with a Nautilus script, you may be able to make whatever you need.
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[Reformist]

Very clever, but that seems a rather roundabout way of doing things. THat is not quite what the average file-manager user needs. I think the original poster meant "when I drag a file into a root folder without permission, a message dialog should ask me for a root password." This would seem the most logical way of doing things, IMO, and perhaps there could be a check box to have the root level of access apply to the rest of the nautilus session or something... or, just remprompt the user upon every move, who knows.
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