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mrpaul

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Registered: 2017-04-10

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Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

Hello all. 

gksudo thunar sftp://185.185.40.103 =

Failed to open "sftp://185.185.xx.xx".

Operation not supporrted.

It works fine as a normal user.  How should I connect as root to my server?

My ssh keys are working from the command line for both root and user.

Last edited by mrpaul (2017-04-10 10:18:50)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

Hello and welcome.

Running it through gdb on my Arch system, I get:

GConf Error: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
GConf Error: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
Thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead

Thunar: Failed to open "sftp://192.168.1.254": Operation not supported

So the reason its not working is that it can't connect to the session dbus.

Running it via:

gksudo 'dbus-launch thunar sftp://192.168.1.254'

...works for me but I'm not sure if this is the best/correct way to access the session dbus.

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Morbius1

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Re: Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

How should I connect as root to my server?

thunar sftp://root@185.185.40.103

mrpaul

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Re: Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

Thanks ToZ. that works.  How did you run it through gdb? whats the command?

@Morbius1 - didnt work for me.  my root has different ssh keys and i dont know how to tell thunar what key to use.

ToZ

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Re: Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

Thanks ToZ. that works.  How did you run it through gdb? whats the command?

If not already installed, install gdb.

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(gdb) file gksudo thunar 

Reading symbols from gksudo...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from thunar...done.

(gdb) run

...then I tried to connect to the sftp share and got those messages.

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mrpaul

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Re: Thunar: Running with gksudo, sftp doesn't work.

Just thought i'd acc my final solution.

Running gksudo 'dbus-launch thunar sftp://192.168.1.254' does not allow opening files in my editor.  Documents open empty.

In the end I used the same ssh key for my normal user as root.  Everthing then works fine using Morbius1's solution.