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1. Alexey K.
   Member
   Posts: 1

   How can I disable run Dropbox nautilus-plugin for some system user?

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. David E.
   Member
   Posts: 1

   I'd like to know the answer to this too. I installed dropbox just for my use, but my girlfriend is being plagued with a registration dialog.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. aluno g.
   Member
   Posts: 1

   yes this would be usefull since it autostarts with every new user (there may be a guest who just wants to work on some text editing and does not want to be bothered by dropbox autostart. (you should had a menu (start dropbox) and quiting for a user would not autostart dropbox until someone would like to use it.

   Also you should give an option to change the user when dropbox starts (its handy since anyone without a password can acess my dropbox locally and I work with lots of kids)

   Posted 1 year ago #

4.  Michael N.
   Dropboxer
   Posts: 2428

   Hello all,

   The dropbox team is looking at providing better granular control over this, right now I made a dropbox group, gave it permissions to the nautilus extension pieces and only added the accounts that I wanted to have dropbox access to it, and removed access for anyone else. It seems to work for now.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. infinito d.
   Member
   Posts: 3

   Well, to get this working, just do (as root):
   

   # addgroup dropbox
   # chown root:dropbox /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-dropbox.*
   # chmod 640 /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-dropbox.*
   # adduser <username> dropbox

   <username> is the user who will have Dropbox enabled. Repeat that steps to allow more users to use Dropbox.

   Be aware that paths are for Ubuntu, maybe those can change on other distros.

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. Trench C.
   Member
   Posts: 6

   A month ago and yet you've received no thank you's?

   Yeesh.

   Thank you.

   This has been one of those very annoying things that I've dealt with daily for a month or more... yet I kept putting off devoting time to fix it.

   This did it.

   Quick and simple.

   (And, ashamed to say, a bit obvious.)

   Danke.

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. Simeon W.
   Member
   Posts: 2

   infinito d, thanks from me too. Just what I was looking for.

   Posted 1 year ago #

8.  Brendan P.
   Pro User
   Posts: 8

   Works for me to! Thanks, much appreciated.

   Dropbox Team, definitely something that is missing from the config options, but not a show stopper!

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. Henrik I.
   Member
   Posts: 1

   Thanks a lot!

   It solved my problems like a charm.

   Posted 1 year ago #

10. santiago s.
    Member
    Posts: 2

    Great solution! Thanks

    Posted 1 year ago #

11. Alexi H.
    Member
    Posts: 3

    Yeah, man! Thanks a lot.

    Posted 1 year ago #

12. Luca F.
    Member
    Posts: 4

    Michael, I hope chown-ing the Nautilus extensions is just a workaroud.

    Based on current GNOME standards and habits, future Dropbox for linux should:

    • launch dropboxd using .desktop file placed in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart (see freedesktop.org Autostart Spec); this will allow users and admins to manage it simply
    • remove code to launch dropboxd from Nautilus extension (it's managed by autostart)
    • add code in Nautilus extension to check if dropboxd is running; if not, remove entries from menus (but honestly I'm not sure current nautilus API allow you to do it)
    • provide a better integration with latest GNOME Session 2.24

    This will solve the issue to disable Dropbox for some users it the best and compliant way.

    Posted 1 year ago #

13. Martin S.
    Member
    Posts: 1

    Yes, definitely thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago #

14.  Adrian S.
    Pro User
    Posts: 3

    Thanks!!!!

    Posted 1 year ago #

15. Far v.
    Member
    Posts: 1

    I'd like too to be able to disable dropbox autostart with a more freedesktop compliant way. It even starts from nautilus and kde4.

    Posted 10 months ago #

16. Oliver A.
    Member
    Posts: 1

    good workaround, but need a better solution, please

    Posted 10 months ago #

17.  Arash F.
    Dropboxer
    Posts: 3075

    better solution is coming very soon (along with the ubuntu jaunty repository and CLI)

    Posted 10 months ago #

18. Tchal V.
    Member
    Posts: 2

    Yeah, no method to disable autostart without installing was a dealbreaker for me, means I'll be uninstalling dropbox to stop the things from starting up.

    Posted 10 months ago #

19.  Arash F.
    Dropboxer
    Posts: 3075

    tchal,
    the solution you're looking for should be available in a week or two :-)

    Posted 10 months ago #

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