[mythtv-users] Created wrong username - is it a problem

[Shanon Mulley]

When you say:
> - you could recreate the mythtv user as a regular user which would let
> you follow Jarod's guide to the letter (and run the backend as user
> mythtv or root).

Do you mean I should delete the existing (system) mythtv user first?

(This looks like the best option for me - I like the "follow Jarod's
guide to the letter" bit).

On 7/7/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/06, Shanon Mulley <shanonmulleyster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm rebuilding my myth machine after a complete and utter crash, using
> > jarrods Fedora guide (My last one was FC4, now doing it with FC5).
> >
> > Now, at  the point where his instructions say to create a user with
> > the name "mythtv", I decided to use a different one. My question is -
> > is this a problem?
>
> Nope.
>
> > I have since gone in and tried to create a user with the name
> > "mythtv", but it wont let me, as now that i have installed mythtv,
> > there is a system user with the name "mythtv".
>
> You have a few options here:
>
> - you could recreate the mythtv user as a regular user which would let
> you follow Jarod's guide to the letter (and run the backend as user
> mythtv or root).
> - you could leave the mythtv system user on the system (you can then
> run mythbackend with this user) and use the different user you added
> to run the frontend (just make sure you substitute your new user for
> mythtv in Jarod's guide).
> - you could ignore the mythtv system user, run the backend as root
> (with all of its security  issues) and run the frontend as your
> different username.
>
> On a dedicated MythTV machine, having many user accounts is probably
> not required, however, you will want at least one regular user
> available for non-root admin.
>
> Nick
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