[mythtv-users] Permissions on recordings

[Paul Stillwell]

On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 12/26/2012 11:35 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>> I also noticed that new recordings are owned by 'root' and group 'root'. Is that correct? I would have assumed that they were owned by 'mythtv', group 'mythtv'.
> 
> They will be owned by the user running the mythbackend process.
> 
> Mike
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Wouldn't the user running mythbackend be root? I'm not super familiar with how things get run at startup, but I'm assuming that things that get set to start when the system boots would be owned by root. Is that correct?

Paul