[mythtv-users] Autologin for root

[Mike Wood]

I'll jump in here to say that I need to log on as root because I can't 
get hardware decoding to work on my EPIA unless I run mythfrontend as 
root.  Anything else and as soon as I go to watch TV mythfrontend 
crashes.  I'd absolutely love to fix that, but in the mean time, I may 
try this out as a compromise.



IvanK. wrote:

>Bad idea.  Very Bad.  Very very Bad :-)
>
>How many more times do I have to repeat this before I drive the point home?
>
>Better spend some extra time resolving why things don't work for non-root 
>users, than open this huge hole.  Usually it's a matter of permissions.  
>Could you be a little more specific what it is that doesn't work?
>
>IvanK.
>
>On Friday 05 December 2003 11:40 am, Dave Anderson wrote:
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>>I know this isn't recommended, but I was wondering if there was a way I can
>>have an autologin for root? I used the gdmsetup and set autologin for a
>>general user and it works, but not for root.
>>
>>I'm having some troubles running things as a general user but they work as
>>root. I wanted to test the system with an autologin as root to make sure
>>things are ok.
>>
>>Dave
>>    
>>
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