[mythtv-users] User permissions

[Chris Porter]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been fighting with this issue for a while and I'm finally asking
> for help. Despite having run linux for the past 13 years, I still
> don't really understand permissions. My specific problem is that I
> have a directory (/mnt/media) which has subdirectories (Movies, TV,
> Trailers, etc.). I put things in those directories from a variety of
> sources, MythTV being one of them. I want the mythtv user to have the
> same permissions as my regular user to read, write, create
> directories, etc. Currently, if I want my mythtv user jobs to be able
> to write a file in that directory, I have to change the ownership to
> mythtv:mythtv. I don't know what else to do.
>
> I'm sorry if this comes off as seriously noobish. I can't help it.
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This is  a bit more elegant solution

setfacl -Rm default:u:mythtv:rw  /mnt/media    (This command configures
/mnt/media and all subdirectories to add mythtv rw permissions on all new
files)

setfacl -Rm u:mythtv:rw /mnt/media  (This command configures recursively all
files in /mnt/media to add mythtv as an acl and gives read and write
permissons on the file)


Most distributions enable ACL's by default.
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