<div><div>Thanks Chris,<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;">Any user should be able to run the frontend process. No special<br>permissions required. Hardware-wise, you may have issues with your
<br>sound card, etc. depending on how your system was initially<br>installed. The best way to deal with that (and give yourself<br>better performance) is to make the Myth programs SUID root.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>
I think I get it. In concept, the Myth's backend's performance will
benefit from root's authority: higher priority, Real-Time Scheduling,
etc. Therefore /dev/video0 should be root owned as well. Problem
-- how to allow non-root (running mythtv-setup) acces to /dev/video0?
Options: change perms of the backend and lose performance, or give a
user the perms of root -- SUID. I vote for option 2.<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;">> b. Database -- Mysql<br><br>MythTV accesses the MySQL database using the credentials supplied
<br>in ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt<br><br>You don't need to make any changes to the database unless the new<br>user is on a remote machine, in which case you will need to<br>configure MySQL for remote access.</blockquote><div><br>
Man! was my life miserable until I commented the "skip networking" line
in the mysql config file. Just one litte # and poof! I can watch TV in
the kitchen. These were my Knoppmyth days.<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;">> c. Device -- /dev/video0<br><br>Access to the hardware is only required by the backend process.
<br>Users running a frontend don't use the capture card directly.</blockquote><div><br>
Accept during mythtv-setup? Nearly every HOWTO says to do this step as a non-root user.<br>
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