[mythtv-users] Success! at long last. Thanks

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:51:16AM -0400, William wrote:
> I suspect that you did not give your myth user any group associations which
> is why it cannot access the devices. I am at work right now and cannot see
> what groups my mythtv user belongs to. Hopefully someone else will post the
> info. I suppose you can look to see what groups root belongs to and use that
> as a guideline.

On my Debian + 0.19 system:

$ grep mythtv /etc/passwd
mythtv:x:112:112::/home/mythtv:/bin/sh

$ grep mythtv /etc/group
audio:x:29:mythtv
video:x:44:mythtv
mythtv:x:112:

$ ls -l /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Jul  7 00:53 /dev/video0