[mythtv-users] Scary permission problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Lee,

Saturday, December 16, 2017, 9:26:05 PM, you wrote:

> I have noticed that ANY computer on my lan, even guests have FULL access
> to my Mythtv VIDEOS folder.

> Looking at permissions, I see it is Owned by user MYTHTV

> However, in user manager, my user is the only one I see.

> How can I fix this?


> Thanks!


You probably have world acces enabled. To disable that

sudo chmod -R o-rwx <the full path to your video directory>

This will recursive remove all world access from that directory and
everything it contains

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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