Security Widget gives wrong firewall info for non-root linux users about wtfdocs HOT 4 CLOSED

sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/ufwstatus

# Then add the following to that file:

# We need to add the "full" command as alias:
Cmnd_Alias      UFWSTATUS = /usr/sbin/ufw status

# Group privilege specification
%ufwstatus      ALL=NOPASSWD: UFWSTATUS

# Add new group: "ufwstatus"
sudo groupadd -r ufwstatus

# Add the username (here "xxxx") to the "ufwstatus" group
sudo gpasswd --add xxxx ufwstatus

# We add all "root" user sbin paths for convenience
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin