Use gvfs admin backend instead of pkexec
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gvfs 1.30 (generally included in GNOME 3.22 distros) has a new admin backend.
Instead of running an app as root or using pkexec, you can just use the admin://
prefix.
For instance, to edit your grub settiings, you can open admin:///etc/default/grub
in gedit
To browse the root home directory, just navigate to admin:///root/
That takes care of Open and Edit as Administrator which I assume would be the most common features of this extension.
The admin backend is useful because GNOME on Wayland currently does not support pkexec. This issue is a follow up for #27
I've been a bit out of the loop lately.
I didn't know about that new admin backend. That's awesome!
Yes, that's a good idea. Thanks!
Done! I tested it on the latest Fedora version and it seems to work fine.
I'll release a new version now.