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

[Nils Kassube]

NoOp wrote:
> Added note: Were I you I'd simply purge this package altogether. I
>  found that I couldn't even download and check for updates without
>  setting it to "Switch to open firewall (not recommended)". IMO it's
>  *much* more trouble than it's worth.

Looks like the habit of a Windows "firewall" I saw some years ago on a 
friend's machine. It constantly pops up messages that something has been 
blocked. Just security theater IMHO.

>  You can do this by:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get purge linux-firewall.org
> The next are only required if you managed to install it completely:
> $ sudo chown <username>:<usergroup> ~/.Xauthority
> $ sudo su
> $ cd /root
> $ rm .Xauthority

And you don't want to remove the changes to /etc/sudoers? I don't speak 
perl, so I don't really understand the lfwsetup script, but I do know 
that it wants to manipulate the /etc/sudoers file under certain 
conditions. Could you have a look at your test machine where it was 
installed and check what was added? The command

sudo grep linux-firewall /etc/sudoers

should output the changes.


Nils