[mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

[Jason W.]

You obviously haven't read "man sudo" then. :)

You can
1) disable the need for password
2) pass the password in on standard in (in the command string).

Sudo is the easiest (and safest) way to do what you want.

P.S. you will also want to read "man visudo".

Piers Kittel wrote:
> Yeah thought of that, but don't you need to type in a password anyway?
> 
> Cheers - Piers
> 
> Kim Wall wrote:
>> Piers Kittel wrote:
>> 
>>> Just need to figure out how to power off the computer as non-root ;)
>> 
>> 
>> man sudo  :)
>> 
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