[mythtv-users] Fedora 16 for mythTV?

[Phusion]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Phusion <phusion2k at gmail.com> wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:39:20PM -0600:
>>> Yeah, I found that out, but still have problems.
>>>
>>> begin
>>> prog = irexec
>>> button = KEY_SLEEP
>>> config = sudo /data/scripts/suspend.sh
>>> repeat = 0
>>> end
>>>
>>> The suspend.sh script is echo mem > /sys/power/state. From the command
>>> line this suspends as well as I can run sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend and
>>> this suspends, but can't get it to work using lirc.
>>
>> When you run them successfully from the command line, do you have to
>> enter a password for sudo? If so, you'll need to set up sudo to allow
>> your mythtv user to run those commands without a password. I'm not
>> sure about Fedora, but on Ubuntu systems you do that in /etc/sudoers
>> or /etc/sudoers.d
>
> Yes, as root from the console type "visudo", it's vi, with some extra
> checking to make sure you don't screw up the sudoers file.
>
> Go down towards the end and uncomment the line:
> ## Same thing without a password
> # %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> to
>
> ## Same thing without a password
>  %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> Now you need to add your mythtv user to the "wheel" group.
>
> usermod -a -G wheel <mythuser>
>
> Now logout and back in.
>
> Keep in mind this isn't very secure because you mythtv user will have
> access to all commands as root without a password. There's ways to
> give sudo access to specific commands without a password but it's a
> bit more complicated.
>
> Richard
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Thanks, but that's already been set.