[mythtv-users] Re: running mythbackend as root (was: Mythweb says I
have 75 out of 72 Gigs used)
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Wed Feb 18 17:40:43 EST 2004
> Why should mythbackend have to chuser itself? Just don't run it as
> root. There's no need to. If you have permissions problems you need
> to solve them. Running as root is not an advisable solution.
well, last I remembered, people were having a number of problems running
myth under redhat as a non-root user, which is why Axel's init.d script
doesn't su the mythbackend execution like the debian stuff apparently
does.
I'm happy to do things either way - but having mythbackend START as
root, and then chuser itself would allow it to make sure that it has the
proper permissions (correcting as necessary) before it turns itself into
a lesser userid.
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