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

[NoOp]

On 03/17/2010 06:07 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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?
>

Also just installed the package on lucid (10.04) after ssh'ing into the
machine first to create the ~/.Xauthority file. So... not disputing your
comments, but still curious/confused.

lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ sudo lfwsetup
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ sudo ln -fs ~/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ sudo chown lucid.root ~/.Xauthority
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ ls -l .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 lucid root 59 2010-03-17 18:20 .Xauthority
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ sudo su
root at lucid-desktop:/home/lucid# cd /root
root at lucid-desktop:~# ls -l .Xauthority
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2010-03-17 18:25 .Xauthority ->
/home/lucid/.Xauthority
root at lucid-desktop:~# exit
exit
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy linux-firewall.org
linux-firewall.org:
  Installed: 2.7
  Candidate: 2.7
  Version table:
 *** 2.7 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
lucid at lucid-desktop:~$