[mythtv-users] Q about users and priveleges...?

[Nick Morrott]

On 26/01/2009, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll reiterate one problem that I have posted about before, which
>  results from mythbuntu running backend and frontend as different
>  users:
>
>  * mythbuntu runs the backend as user mythtv and the frontend as the
>  user you create on installation (in my case 'nick'). When you set up
>  the grabber in mythtv-setup, it puts the config file in
>  /home/nick/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv (where nick is the user and Freeview
>  is the video source name you allocated). The trouble is that the
>  backend running as mythtv does not look in nick's home directory, it
>  looks in its own, ending up with an error 512 (FAILED: xmltv returned
>  error code 512.) when mythfilldatabase is run.
>
>  The solution was a simple symlink.

Another might be running mythtv-setup as the mythbackend user
(assuming it has a valid login shell). One potential problem - in
addition to that described above - of running mythtv-setup as the
frontend user is that the user might not have access to the capture
hardware to allow it to be setup correctly.

Nick

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