[mythtv] [PATCH] Add option to mythfilldatabase to change user

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:17:30AM +1000, William Uther wrote:
>   I run my backend as root.  I recently switched from running 
> mythfilldatabase as a cron job to using the internal method... it 
> stopped working.  The problem was that with filldb running as root, it 
> didn't have the correct home dir set, and so it couldn't find the 
> tv_grab_au prefs.
> 
>   Attached is a patch to add an option to mythfilldatabase that allows 
> it to switch users on startup.  This has two effects:
>   - the home dir will be set correctly when it tries to get the grabber 
> prefs
>   - the grabber script is no longer being run as root

Why not run the backend as non-root instead?


Hamish
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