[mythtv-users] Q about users and priveleges...?
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jan 26 22:02:40 UTC 2009
On 01/26/2009 04:58 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 26/01/2009, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> I'll reiterate one problem that I have posted about before, which
>> results from mythbuntu running backend and frontend as different
>> users:
>>
>> * mythbuntu runs the backend as user mythtv and the frontend as the
>> user you create on installation (in my case 'nick'). When you set up
>> the grabber in mythtv-setup, it puts the config file in
>> /home/nick/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv (where nick is the user and Freeview
>> is the video source name you allocated). The trouble is that the
>> backend running as mythtv does not look in nick's home directory, it
>> looks in its own, ending up with an error 512 (FAILED: xmltv returned
>> error code 512.) when mythfilldatabase is run.
>>
>> The solution was a simple symlink.
>>
> Another might be running mythtv-setup as the mythbackend user
> (assuming it has a valid login shell). One potential problem - in
> addition to that described above - of running mythtv-setup as the
> frontend user is that the user might not have access to the capture
> hardware to allow it to be setup correctly.
Wasn't http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5659 another (which went into
-fixes, specifically due to the efforts of a MythBuntu hacker who made
the patch due to MythBuntu's configuration) in [18314] (4 months ago).
Mike
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