[mythtv-users] Success! at long last. Thanks

[H P Ladds]

Well after much monkeying with the permisions, I give-up. As best I can tell
mythtv-setup can only be successfully run as root. Any other user appears to
be denied access to the video capture card. In my case a pcHDTV HD3000.

However, allowing a non-root user to operate Mythtv was not difficult. In my
case, I needed to make sure that the current user had access to the
directory assigned under mythtv-setup > General >"directory to hold
recordings."  ALSO I needed to assure that the cx88_dvb module was loaded.
(It does not load by default -- yet).

I have no quams with the administrative tasks of Mythtv being limited to the
root user. It probably saves the household sysadmin a lot of headaches. I'm
just curious as to how this is accomplished by the good folks at Mythtv.  I
thought it was every linux users right to log-on as root and screw-up their
machine in any fashion they choose.

I do have some difficulties with operating Mythtv as root. Isn't that
against the first rule of linux -- "Thou shalt not operate the machine as
root -- unless very necessary."



On 8/5/06, Shanon Mulley <shanonmulleyster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ladds,
>
> I'm running fedora using Jarods guide also. Like you, a=normal user on
> my system cant access the video cards - only the root user. At first I
> tried to resolve it, but in the end I decided it didnt matter, as
> mythtv worked fine anyway. A problem that doesnt stop something from
> working is not a problem in my book.
>
> Also, I cant run mythfilldatabase as a normal user - only as root.
> Again, this is not a problem me, as I beleive root is the user that
> runs it automatically anyway.
>
> Shanon.
>
> On 8/5/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Thanks William.
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 8/4/06, William < wmunson at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Your permissions on /video are read,write for root only.
> > >
> >
> >  I'm confused. Aren't the permissons for the owner of dev/video0 rw.
> Isn't
> > mythtv the owner of /dev/video0?  Shouldn't mythtv have rw permissions?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > $ ls -l /dev/video0
> > > > crw-------  1 mythtv root 81, 0 Aug  3 08:15 /dev/video0
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Mythtv did not lock the dir.
> >
> >
> > I wonder how it got locked -- perhaps udev did.
> >
> >
> > > chmod 777 /video would have fixed the problem
> > > too.
> > >
> >
> >  I gave 777 a try, and surprisingly, it didn't work. Even more
> interesting,
> > the permissions for the dev reset to 600 after reboot. I believe this is
> > also a function of udev.
> >
> >  I think it's time for me to learn more about udev.
> >
> >
> >
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