{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4699","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4699/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4699/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4699/events","html_url":"https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4699","id":110837163,"number":4699,"title":"Run as Administrator feature","user":{"login":"bernd-wechner","id":7296506,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7296506?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner","html_url":"https://github.com/bernd-wechner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bernd-wechner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-11T06:08:13Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T06:08:13Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The lack of this in Cinnamon has proved frustrating to me after moving from Windows 7 I admit.\r\n\r\nI come across a wonderful package like etherApe and it cannot run sensibly without admin privileges. \r\n\r\nThe nearest existing issue filed I found was:\r\n\r\nAdd Capability to Run Launcher as Root #2244 \r\n\r\nbut this is not actually a duplicate and that was closed as a non-issue.\r\n\r\nMy need has two current workarounds:\r\n\r\n1) Fix the applications binary to run setuid root. Alas GTK+ binaries refuse to run like that so no go for them, and etherape is one such. So fail in this case.\r\n\r\n2) fix the launcher properties by prefixing the comman with gksudo. It now runs much like the MINT  software manager and asks for a root password every time I start it which is a pain really, as unlike the software manager I'm very happy for family members to run etherape without needing to know a root password. Hence while liveable on a personal level, a fail for etherape still as it wants to provide a service to anyone desktop user in a sense who wants to watch network activity (and is allowed to).\r\n\r\nThere is definitely a cinnamon issue here at the very least because there could (arguably should) be a Run as Administrator on the drop down right-click menu that the Menu applet offers. Currently it has Add to panel, Add to desktop, Add to favourites and Uninstall, the last of which needs admin privileges presumably as well.\r\n\r\nCinnamon could/should have Run as Adminsitrator in this list as well which does what I did (launches with gksudo), but that's a minimal. In the ideal (though this may no longer be a Cinnamon issue, and if not any tips as to where it's best addressed are appreciated) it would do that but allow me as an administrator to flag this as running as an administrator and not have to provide a password each time, and to be able to configure family member accounts like that too."}}