[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Wed Mar 25 05:18:31 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi James,
>
> Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 7:55:16 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Coupla questions about the Gentoo installation procedures.
>
> > First, on Mythbuntu there was always a pre-created mythtv user. You were
> > expected to add your own user and not to operate as mythtv. I gather from
> > looking over the notes that this additional user is not needed under a
> > Gentoo MythTV installation, correct? Whatever unpriviledged user the one
> > carrying out the installation adds will suffice?
>
> There is no user created. It's up to you to do it as you want it.
> That said, it IS wise to create a special user to run the backend and
> the frontend. You don't want to run it as root and (at least I) don't
> want to run under my own account.
> You need to make that user member of the video, cdrom, etc group.
>
> The mythtv ebuild does create a mythtv user to run everything under. By
the way, James, since you're installing on an ECS Liva, you may be
interested in my post here (if you hadn't found it already):
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7670034.html  I'm only using mine as a
frontend, but you might still find some useful information there.

Karl
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