[mythtv-users] MythTV User Status ??

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi jim,

Monday, January 12, 2015, 5:49:37 PM, you wrote:


> On 01/12/2015 10:28 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:56 AM, jim <jim_32766 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks (or is that dank je?), Hika. The less /etc/passwd worked as
>>> advertised and I now can see the user mythtv, plus can see that user has
>>> a home directory and shell via "/home/mythtv:/bin/sh".There is no
>>> password for this user to login though, correct?
>> I don't run Mythbuntu, but most Linux distributions are set up to use
>> shadow passwords.  If the /etc/passwd file has an "x" in the password
>> field (the one after the first colon, following the username), then
>> the password is defined in the file /etc/shadow, not /etc/passwd.
>> Usually the permissions on the shadow file are more restricted, such
>> that normal users cannot read it.  If you see an x there, you would
>> need to check the shadow file to know if the account has a password or
>> not.
>>
>> And accounts without passwords can still log in, they just need to use
>> an authentication mechanism other than a password (e.g. ssh keys or
>> something like that).
>>
>> Eric
>>
> Comparing entries in the /etc/shadow file for my user and the mythtv
> user I can see the difference you mention. My user has $6$ in the second
> field and the mythtv user has a *. It appears that users without regular
> login passwords, e.g. pulse, are indicated by the * in the second field.
> The only exception is mysql which has a ! in that field.
> Would it hurt to add a regular password for mythtv and make it more like
> my regular user account. For a HTPC would it be better to only have the
> mythtv user account?
> One thing I am failing to accomplish is having a program run that checks
> the DVD title. I can't seem to find a mount point when MythTV is
> running. It's not under /media/user as it is on my other linux mint
> system (without MythTV). Maybe it would be if I had set up a mythtv user
> before installing MythTV?
> Thanks for helping the new kid!

It is always beter to set a password. If you want to see the active
mount points type df at the prompt. You can filter the output with:
df | grep <filterstring>. It than only shows lines containing that
string.


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