Okay, so I solved part of the sudoers list / root password problem. Turns out that I had not downloaded quite all the sudo packages, particularly some of the tde-trinity packages, or kde-trinity transition packages, or something in that lot. Now my password and permissions behave as usual, so my life can continue. Still, just to get up to speed with the rest of the smart folks, I would like to figure out why I have problems with that. It makes no difference for me now, in my day-to-day life. I try to stay offline when I don't need something, and use my machine for other things. However ... it might be good to know, as well as more secure, and it might be that I ought to learn this. I tried to follow what the Linux Bible says, but (just like with the other Bible), it seems to be full of contradictory advice, and I end up being told that I don't have permission, when I know that in fact I do have it, that this is my machine. As for the firewall, I got gufw up and running, once I solve that sudo problem, by downloading the trinity sudo packages. Now I just need to figure out how to find where Firestarter keeps its iptables files. I have my rules, of course, which I have kept meticulously collected and curated now for 15 years, but ufw or gufw doesn't seem to recognize these, and I don't see how they relate to iptables, even though I have read that firestarter uses iptables. If I can get ufw/gufw to use my firestarter rules, then life would become tolerable again. I wonder if developers can be persuaded to create firestarter-trinity packages, updated to handle ipv6? Gufw does have some nice features, but it is good to be able to see my connections, in real time -- especially when it seems that it was being hijacked, or derailed, by a tor exit node. It seems a pity that such a great package should be deemed obsolete, and not worth adapting or upgrading, but there may be technical reasons that make it unavoidable. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
