[mythtv-users] Database problem?

David Schmidt david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 20:09:53 UTC 2006


On 10/13/06, Peter Crighton <mythtv at p-cright.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> I don't have a mythtv user (i.e. I login to Mandriva as peter).
[...]
>
> Should I create a user mythtv with password mythtv?

Not unless you trust your firewall.  Word around the list earlier this
year is at least one worm out in the wild is trying to get into any
machine it can find with that username/password.

> I thought that any
> normal user could run the program?
>

You thought correctly.

Good luck!


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