<div dir="ltr">Well I started mythfrontend as user = mythtv but still getting the same permission error in the backend log.<div><br></div><div>I checked and both jonno and mythtv have video listed in their groups.</div><div><br></div><div>What else can I look at?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hoi R.,<br>
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 6:35:20 PM, you wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 16/09/14 11:16 AM, Jonno wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hoi Hika,<br>
>><br>
>> You can try to login as user mythtv (you might have to first set a<br>
>> password): su mythtv. Then try to go to the directory and try to<br>
>> create a file: touch test<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks Hoi, I will try that. I suspect it will work as the backend no<br>
>> longer complains about not being able to create a test file (user =<br>
>> mythtv) whereas the frontend (user = jonno) can't create recording files.<br>
<br>
> You might want to try adding both users mythtv and jonno to the group<br>
> video, and 'chown -R video:video recordings`<br>
<br>
> Geoff<br>
<br>
</span>No, adding them to video is Good, but the recordings should be owned<br>
by user mythtv. Besides a user video probably doesn't exists.<br>
Wether you use the group mythtv or video is in essence arbitrary. The<br>
user running the backend and the frontend though should be member of<br>
video to be able to properly access the capture and video devices.<br>
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