Meaning of admin:/// in a URL
Solution 1:
admin:///
is in this case a
URI Scheme or Web Protocol,
handled by some program installed on the computer.
Wikipedia lists this scheme in its page of List of URI schemes:
Scheme | Purpose | Defined by | General format |
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admin | URL scheme in the GNOME desktop environment to access file(s) with administrative permissions with GUI applications in a safer way, instead of the insecure-considered sudo, gksu & gksudo. | GNOME Virtual file system |
admin://<path>/<to>/<file> example: gedit admin://etc/default/grub
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