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

[NoOp]

On 03/17/2010 06:02 PM, Tom H 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)
> 
>>> Step 4 will only work in Ubuntu pre 9.10.
> 
>> Can you explain please?
> 
> Because the authority has been moved to
> /var/run/gdm/auth-...-<user>-.../database
> 

Ummm... worked just fine for me on the test 9.10 test machine. Further
details please?