[mythtv-users] localhost errors

Mr cctsurf cctsurf at hotmail.com
Fri May 30 17:01:15 UTC 2008


> Each frontend needs to save it's config data in the database, if you 
> just used localhost for all frontends they'd overwrite each other. 
> While in your circumstance it wasn't helpful I dont think this was a 
> recent change... 

I understand that the frontend needs to save it's config data in the database and that it should be catagorized under the hostname, however, that it accesses the local database under the hostname, not the localhost or ip address seems to be new, I've never had this problem in the 5 years I've used myth.  I could access the backend from all the other frontends, but the localhost.  I couldn't run nuvexport, I couldn't run mythfrontend, I couldn't even run mythtv-setup, yet I could access the database from the commandline.  It may be something new with mysql, but I would assume that it is something that should work when working from the localhost.

Another thing, I don't exactly understand this, I thought security on systems was a good thing, harder to hack, etc.  so I really don't understand going against the recommendations of the documentation and saying,

> Personally, i set the permissions to mythtv@% to avoid any hostname 
> silliness. If you MySQL server doesn't have open access to the world 
> then why bother securing by hostname? 

The documentation says, "NOTE:  The "no security" option is very dangerous unless
you're in a controlled environment.


This example has no security at all, and allows access from any host."
I just locked it down to my subnet, not by hostname...  That's what caught me off guard here.  Thanks,


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