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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" class="">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 08:02:29 -0400, you wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The mythtv user is often set up as a minimal configuration - no<br class="">password. So adding a password to it can help with login problems:<br class=""><br class="">sudo passwd mythtv<br class=""><br class="">Then you can login using the mythtv user directly.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think I want to do this. Besides giving mythtv a password, how do I <br class="">make it a full user with bash shell like $USER?<br class=""><br class="">Does this do it?<br class=""><br class="">"sudo chsh -s /bin/bash mythtv"<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes. You may also need to have a look at the /home/mythtv directory<br class="">and see if it has the usual files to help bash work properly. In my<br class="">/home/stephen, there are .bashrc and .bash_logout files, and I think<br class="">you will need to copy them to /home/mythtv and change their ownership<br class="">to get bash to work normally. Without them, I think the environment<br class="">variables will not be set up properly.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>All I had to do was sudo passwd mythtv, then sudo chsh -s /bin/bash mythtv</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It created a lot of invisible files in /home/mythtv and the desktop works as expected also terminal sessions are bash and work as expected. $HOME is /home/mythtv and $USER is mythtv</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I didn’t have to copy any other files from my normal user.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>