Trouble in accessing `/home/USERNAME/.Xauthority'

[Hamed Abdy]

Thank you Franklin and Nils.
About the file, I don't know what is it for. But I think(by reading
the Ubuntu help) it's something related to cookies.

About the firewall:
I was using Firestarter but after visiting
http://linuxappfinder.com/security/firewalls I found
linux-firewall.org in top of rating.
Actually I'm so confused in finding a good, simple and easy to use
firewall for Linux.
In windows, I'm using Bitdefender security suite and it automatically
asks about permission for programs that want to connect to Internet.
It's simple but also professional.
But which firewall is the best for Linux having all these features together?

Hamed Abdy




On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hamed Abdy wrote:
>> I'm a beginner user of Ubuntu(and also Linux), using Ubuntu 9.10.
>> I tried to setup linux-firewall.org using this steps(as mentioned in
>> www.linux-firewall.org):
>>
> [...]
>> 4. Run the following commands:
>> sudo lfwsetup
>> sudo ln -fs ~/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority
>> sudo chown USERNAME.root ~/.Xauthority
>> (you will have to replace USERNAME with your username)
>> 5. Restart your PC and enjoy the software
>>
>> Until step 4, I hadn't any problem. But when I run "sudo chown
>> hamed.root ~/.Xauthority", I get this error:
>>
>> chown: cannot access `/home/hamed/.Xauthority': No such file or
>>  directory
>
> I think the reason is that there is no file "/root/.Xauthority".
> Therefore I would suggest you create it as an empty file with the
> command
>
> sudo touch /root/.Xauthority
>
> and then the chown command should succeed. However, I don't know if that
> will work because perhaps the file may not be empty.
>
> Out of curiosity: Why do you want to use this firewall? It seems to be a
> proprietary program while there are several free firewall programs
> available in the repositories. One of them (ufw) is even installed by
> default. Furthermore, the website doesn't look very trustworthy to me.
>
>
> Nils
>
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