[mythtv-users] User jobs as regular user?

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Mon Jun 8 03:25:11 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 22:08 -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> I've got a user job that cuts commercials from HD-PVR recordings and
> automatically stores TV shows in show-specific directories. The
> problem is my directory tree is not writable by the mythtv user and
> I'd rather have all my files created by my normal user anyway.
> 
> So is there a way to automatically run this user job as my regular
> user?

I wouldn't normally advise this, but...

you could setup a key to your normal account, then have the myth user
ssh into your account to run the job...

	-I



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