[mythtv-users] which user should setup mythtv and xmltv??

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jim,

Saturday, January 27, 2018, 11:37:43 PM, you wrote:



> On 01/27/2018 04:29 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> On 27 January 2018 11:36:08 pm Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> having recently run into permission issue I'd like some advice on what
>>> should be done by which user??
>>>
>> Personally if I am troubleshooting anything related to the backend
>> (mythtv-setup, xmltv grabbers, ttvdb, tmdb, mythfilldatabase) I
>> troubleshoot as the user that runs the BE. Just a personal preference.
>>

> What determines that mythbackend runs as user 'mythtv'?  I assumed that
> it did, but don't know that for a fact.

It is setup that way by most if not all installations and run/service
scripts coming with it. However if you do compile yourself it is
determined by you. But also if you install it as a package you could
adapt the service/run scripts coming with it to run as a different
user. Then however you must readapt on any upgrade as most package
installers will overwrite any changes made by you at those places.

> Jim A

>>> I use Ubuntu 16.04 and used to use Mythbuntu 16.04 so a lot of things
>>> just happened.
>>>
>>> My normal process is to install Ubuntu and create myself as the user,
>>> "jim". I do all my work as "jim" and sudo when I need to.
>>>
>>> When you initially run mythtv-setup it adds "jim" to the mythtv group
>>> and I logout then back in, again as "jim".
>>>
>>> Generally, I could do everything as "jim" once I got to v0.28 and not
>>> 29. On 0.27 I'd have issues if I ran mythfilldatabase as "jim" due to
>>> some files created in /tmp without being user "mythtv".
>>>
>>> So with v29, I've had no issue until I converted to XMLTV from the
>>> internal SchedulesDirect grabber. It seems that the grabber will run
>>> automatically as user 'mythtv', but if I run it manually as 'jim', it's
>>> looking for config and database files under the wrong user.
>>>
>>> So what I'm asking, is should I just start doing all setup and
>>> maintenance work as user "mythtv"?  Meaning making mythtv a full user
>>> with password, put on the sudoers list, and have a proper shell.
>>>
>>> Jim A
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Having mythtv user
>> with a login shell is a valid option. sudo -umythtv...... or sudo -umythtv
>> bash may be another. You could give mythtv a login shell for
>> troubleshooting and revoke it later. Do it all as jim and symlink / chown.
>> Lots of options. No right or wrong answers.
>>
>>
>>
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