A few days ago, I installed a new clean Debian stable since my old one from 2004 was badly shaped. I am still trying to configure it up like my old one from scratch.
How do I run Guarddog v2.6.0 with root/sudo access in Gnome v2.3 since I don't like KDE v4.4.3 (currently installed too)? I can run Guarddog without problems if I use KDE and it even asks my root/sudo password.
I noticed running Guarddog as root/sudo in Terminal in Gnome shows:
# guarddog
No protocol specified
guarddog: cannot connect to X server :0.0
I have no problems running other KDE programs like kmail, kruler, etc. in Gnome though.
FYI, I use Guarddog because it is easy to configure my iptables. ;)
Thank you in advance. :)
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> A few days ago, I installed a new clean Debian stable since my old one
> from 2004 was badly shaped. I am still trying to configure it up like my
> old one from scratch.
> How do I run Guarddog v2.6.0 with root/sudo access in Gnome v2.3 since I
> don't like KDE v4.4.3 (currently installed too)? I can run Guarddog
> without problems if I use KDE and it even asks my root/sudo password.
> I noticed running Guarddog as root/sudo in Terminal in Gnome shows:
> # guarddog
> No protocol specified
> guarddog: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> I have no problems running other KDE programs like kmail, kruler, etc.
> in Gnome though.
> FYI, I use Guarddog because it is easy to configure my iptables. ;)
> Thank you in advance. :)
The problem is caused by X not allowing any connection to the server other than your normal user.
As the normal user try:
$ xhost +local:
then run Guarddog as root. When you have finished run
$ xhost -local:
I tried Guarddog a few years back and it caused me problems (can't remember what they were though). These days I use firehol which has worked well for years with no gui problems! However the lack of IPv6 support is likely to send me to something else, probably shorewall.
> > A few days ago, I installed a new clean Debian stable since my old one
> > from 2004 was badly shaped. I am still trying to configure it up like my
> > old one from scratch.
> > How do I run Guarddog v2.6.0 with root/sudo access in Gnome v2.3 since I
> > don't like KDE v4.4.3 (currently installed too)? I can run Guarddog
> > without problems if I use KDE and it even asks my root/sudo password.
> > I noticed running Guarddog as root/sudo in Terminal in Gnome shows:
> > # guarddog
> > No protocol specified
> > guarddog: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> > I have no problems running other KDE programs like kmail, kruler, etc.
> > in Gnome though.
> > FYI, I use Guarddog because it is easy to configure my iptables. ;)
> > Thank you in advance. :)
> The problem is caused by X not allowing any connection to the server other > than your normal user.
> As the normal user try:
> $ xhost +local:
> then run Guarddog as root. When you have finished run
> $ xhost -local:
> I tried Guarddog a few years back and it caused me problems (can't remember > what they were though). These days I use firehol which has worked well for > years with no gui problems! However the lack of IPv6 support is likely to > send me to something else, probably shorewall.
I will try that later. Hmm, maybe it is time to replace Guarddog since I have been using it to configure my firewall throuh GUI.
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>> The problem is caused by X not allowing any connection to the server other
>> than your normal user.
>> As the normal user try:
>> $ xhost +local:
>> then run Guarddog as root. When you have finished run
>> $ xhost -local:
>> I tried Guarddog a few years back and it caused me problems (can't remember
>> what they were though). These days I use firehol which has worked well for
>> years with no gui problems! However the lack of IPv6 support is likely to
>> send me to something else, probably shorewall.
> I will try that later. Hmm, maybe it is time to replace Guarddog since I
> have been using it to configure my firewall throuh GUI.
Perfect. It worked. I forgot to mention that running Guarddog as a regular user (no su/root) had no problems.
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