<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A workaround might be to use 'sudo' to launch stepmania as a different user,<br>i.e. instead of running 'stepmania', you would run 'sudo -u mythtv stepmania'
<br>which would launch it as the mythtv user. The better solution in my opinion</blockquote><div><br>I see. So I'd change the entry in mainmenu.xml to read as follows:<br><br> <action>EXEC sudo -u mythtv /home/mythtv/StepMania-
3.9/stepmania</action><br><br>Is that what you're saying?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">would be to make mythtv itself do this; running mythtv as root isn't a
<br>reason to run everything mythtv launches as root as well.</blockquote><div><br>Hm. I'm not sure I understand what you mean; I am running mythtv with the mythtv user, not the root user. Sorry if I'm a little confused here. The way things go is that I have a bootup script that has root calling startx but invoking it as the mythtv user. Then mythfrontend is called from .xinitrc so that it's running as a mthtv user process.
<br><br>Does that make sense? Thanks again.<br><br>Jack.<br></div></div>