[mythtv-users] Where is myth getting it's credentials?

Tony Sauri hoiho.nz at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 04:30:07 UTC 2012


On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:01, Nick Rout wrote:
> I am trying to help someone having authentication problems with
> mythfrontend on ubuntu, so as an experiment to try and emulate his
> errors I renamed /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt, /etc/mythtv/config.xml,
> ~nick/.mythtv/config.xml and ~nick/.mythtv/mysql.txt.
>
> However when I start either mythfrontend or mythtv-setup (both of
> which are wrapper scripts on mythbuntu) the corresponding programs
> start without any hitch.
>
> Where/how are they getting the credentials for the database? I
> understood that these came from the above files, which I renamed.
>
> Confused of Quaketown.


I also have a set of files in ~/mythtv/.mythtv (links actually to the /etc 
files)

Mythtv being the user that runs mythbackend

Regards

Tony Sauri


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