[mythtv-users] start at boot and permissions

[Darryl Hirschler]

Last night I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers which forced me to
have to reboot.  When I rebooted I remembered I have not yet configured
my PC to skip login and start MythTV automatically at boot-time.  I then
discovered that I had to restart mythbackend because I was logged in as
"darryl", not "mythtv".  I am always logged in as "darryl though.  So I
have a series of related questions now.

 

1. Somewhere in Myth setup (can't remember if it was frontend or backend
setup, probably backend) I remember setting it to login to Mysql as user
"mythtv" with pw of "mythtv".  I am assuming this will not need to
change, right?

 

2. I found in /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend script is set to USER=mythtv.
Do I simply change this to "darryl" or does this need to stay as
"mythtv"?

 

3. This was the source of some of my troubles when I did the initial
install, so I have a lot of confusion surrounding this whole subject of
who owns what and who needs what permissions.  Can somebody please set
me straight?  I just want to understand everything properly.

 

I am very close to putting this box into fulltime service connected to
the TV, but I want to get these issues resolved first.  My wife is not
Linux friendly.  In fact, she kind of gets tired of my "geek-speak"
about Linux and MythTV.  I am anxious to put it into service so she can
see just what I've been raving about these past couple of weeks.

 

 

Darryl

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