[mythtv-users] Saving recordings as root

[Michael Denver]

Michael Denver wrote:

>When I record a tv show it creates the file with root being the owner. So I
>have to chown the file in order to watch it. Any ideas why they are not
>being created with my mythtv user being the owner?
>
>

>You backend is running as root and saving the files as such (which is
>fairly normal).  You shouldn't need to chown the files at all to play
>them since the files *should* look something like this:
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     893208512 May  5 18:00
>2028_20040505173000_20040505180000.nuv

The files are being saved with -rw-r----- permissions. My umask is 0022
which should give read permission to all right?