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

[Shanon Mulley]

I think you mis-understood what I meant.

I have to administer mythtv as root, but I run it as a normal user.
This works fine, as the root user (which has access to the tv cards)
accesses the tv cards, while the mythtv client just reads from the
mythbackend service (I beleive).

I dont remember giving special permissions to the recordings directory
to make anything work either. But I think I have opened up the
permissions there so I can access the files from my windows machines.

On 8/8/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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