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I am attempting to open a .jar file with java 8 but it gives me an error message asking for admin privileges:

Please start the Authenticator with admin privileges

I am completely new to this type of issue, so my first reaction was to run sudo java -jar /home/sethlord/Downloads/Authenticator/Authenticator.jar in a terminal, but it gave me the same error message. Any fix?

terdon
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The classical method would be ...

sudo -i
java -jar /home/sethlord/Downloads/Authenticator/Authenticator.jar

If you really really need "root"

sudo -su
java -jar /home/sethlord/Downloads/Authenticator/Authenticator.jar

But try to avoid that since it logs notices to user "root" and not the "sudo" account.

Rinzwind
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