[mythtv-users] Group/user numbers changing on 16.04??

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 20:51:11 UTC 2016


Hoi Jim,

Monday, August 8, 2016, 10:41:41 PM, you wrote:

>   



>> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 22:13:41 +0200
>> From: hikavdh at gmail.com
>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Group/user numbers changing on 16.04??
>> 
>> Hoi Jim,
>> 
>> Monday, August 8, 2016, 9:06:49 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > To fix things or to upgrade to new versions of Mythbuntu, I just
>> > rebuild my boot drive and leave my Storage directory drives alone. 
>> > Same thing for network attached drives on a NAS.
>> 
>> 
>> > The problem is the user mythtv and group mythtv have changed
>> > numbers.  Mythtv group usesd to be 124 and mythtv user was 115.  Now
>> > on the reinstall mythtv group is now 121 and mythtv user is 123. 
>> 
>> 
>> > This is more of an issue for NAS drives/files since I have lots of
>> > them. I can always recreate and format the storage directory drives
>> > since I don't upgrade or reinstall when there are recordings on the system.
>> 
>> 
>> > Is there an easy way to handle this?  I tried changing the owner
>> > and group on the NAS, but I got permissions issues even when doing it as SU.
>> 
>> 
>> > Jim A
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> That is in part why I work with ldap. My UIDs and GIDs never change.
>> 
>> But back to the issue. What kind of permission issues, root UID 0 has
>> by definition all conceivable rights on a system. However ssh can be
>> blocked to root. It's a setting in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> "PermitRootLogin". You can set it to yes, no and some intermediate
>> settings to for instance only allow connection through ssl keys and
>> not through a password.
>> It is also possible that your NAS exposes a fake root user with
>> another UID then 0. In that case I'm out of my depth as I never really
>> worked with a NAS.
>> 
>> The simplest should be a:
>>  sudo chown -R mythtv <path>
>>   or
>>  sudo chown -R mythtv.mythtv <path>
>> on the relevant trees on the NAS
>> 


> When I try sudo chown mythtv:mythtv /media/media/TV_Shows/*
> I get permission denied.  The mount in etc/fstab for the NAS is:


> //192.168.0.250/media /media/media cifs
> user=mythtv,password=myth_password 0 0 


> I had to give the user mythtv a password for this to work
> originally.  The network drive mounts and I can do stuff on the
> drive as my user which is UID 1000 on both systems.  mythtv user is different now.


> Jim A

Try mounting it as root on another directory. for instance:

sudo mount 192.168.0.250/media /mnt/tmpmount

Of cause the directory /mnt/tmpmount must exist.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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