[mythtv-users] running mythtv-setup as a different

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 00:58:33 UTC 2018


> On Oct 31, 2018, at 5:04 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 31, 2018, at 4:51 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> My user name is ‘jim’.  I normally run mythtv-setup as jim.  I thought about trying to run as user ‘mythtv’ to explore an issue. So I opened a terminal and tried this:
>> 
>> jim at jim-xubuntu:~$ sudo su mythtv
>> [sudo] password for jim: 
>> $ mythtv-setup
>> mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
>> No protocol specified
>> xprop:  unable to open display ':0.0'
>> No protocol specified
>> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>> 
>> (zenity:5379): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:32:53.104: cannot open display: :0.0
>> $
>> 
>> Is there something that has to be setup for user mythtv to do this??
>> 
>> Jim A
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> Mythtv doesn’t have permissions to ‘write’ on the display.
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> Before you do the sudo, use the following command to allow mythtv access:
> 
> xhost +
> 

Yeap, that worked great. Thanks.

Jim A

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