[mythtv-users] Frontend user profile problem

[Ramon Hofer]

On 07/20/2011 01:04 PM, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>
> On one of my client computers running Ubuntu 10.10 and Myth Frontend I 
> cannot connect to the backend database if I log on as one of the users 
> on this system.
>
> If I log in as user A and start the frontend I can connect and watch 
> live TV and recordings however if I log in as user B I cannot connect 
> to the backend dB because it is using the wrong password.  No matter 
> how many times I change the password to the correct password I still 
> cannot connect and when I restart the frontend I see the incorrect 
> password is back again and the change I made was not saved.
>
> I have changed user B to have the same Ubuntu admin rights  as user A 
> and it still makes no difference.  User B uses this workstation all 
> the time but cannot get any access to the MythTv backend.
>
> I also tried uninstalling the frontend and reinstalling but it reverts 
> back to the incorrect password that I cannot change.  It has the user 
> mythtv as well as mythtv as the password which is not what the 
> password should be.
>
> How do I resolve this particular installation?
>

I don't know if I can help you but I have one suggestion:
The PW is stored in ~/.mythtv/config.xml. Maybe there's a wrong PW in it?


Regards
Ramon
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