[mythtv-users] Shutdown / Restart Frontend

[Michael Stucky]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/12/2014 08:04 PM, Michael Stucky wrote:
> ...
> > Make sure that the user that runs the mythfrontend has permission to
>
>> execute reboot/shutdown. You will probably need to add a line like this to
>> /etc/suders:
>>
>>   mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot, /sbin/halt, /sbin/shutdown
>>
>> This assumes that "mythtv" is the user that runs mythfrontend. And the
>> proper way to edit /etc/suders is:
>>
>> sudo visudo
>>
>
> If the line: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d appears in /etc/sudoers, then,
> as I just posted, put the changes in /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv (which may
> already be there.) Both ways work, sudoers.d is preferred.
>
> --
> Bill
>
>
I have updated my frontend's sudoers config by moving the
reboot/halt/shutdown line to /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv and have verified that
the frontend shuts down as before.

Thanks for showing us a better way to do this.

Mike
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