<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:27 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 Ian,<br>
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 2:07:46 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> Go back to a thread about running mythtv-setup over ssh as the mythtv user,<br>
> the recommended command line was:<br>
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> ssh -l mythtv -Y backendserver<br>
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> Only problem is that it asks for the mythtv user's password but Mythbuntu<br>
> doesn't set it up with one.<br>
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> So what's the proper way around this? Or if I just VNC into the backend how<br>
> do I properly run mythtv-setup as the myth user? I always seem to stumble<br>
> here especially as running mythtv-setup is not something you need to do<br>
> often.<br>
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> Thanks.<br>
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</div></div>It is normally not needed, but there is also no real reason, except<br>
some security reasons, not to set it up.<br>
If you have setup a shell you can always ad-hoc change user with `su<br>
mythtv` You possibly first have to be logged in as root.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know my mythtv password... if it even has one.</div><div><br></div><div>I just use:</div><div> sudo su mythtv</div><div>when logged into my systems as my interactive user account.</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>