[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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