[mythtv-users] Can't access my Mp3 collection

Josh Burks dotnofoolin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 21:49:55 UTC 2006


On 9/28/06, Andrew Davis <andrew at nccomp.com> wrote:
> Except that anything owned by a lower privileged user can be accessed by
> root. Thus, even if its set to mythtv:mythtv with 444 perms, root can
> access it. So if the backend is running as root, its a non-issue. The
> only issue is if the mythtv user can access it. Of course, there's the
> immutable flag, but that's not relevant here...

Does the backend even have anything to do with it? I though all file
access for most plugins (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc..) was handled by
the frontend.

Josh


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