[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 2:45:40 PM, you wrote:

> Hoi James,

> Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 2:28:13 PM, you wrote:

>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Karl Newman wrote:

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

>> Based on this input, I went ahead and created a user named mythtv and 
>> added that user to the indicated group. Yet Karl now interjects:

>>> The mythtv ebuild does create a mythtv user to run everything under.

>> My MythTV compilation finally finished but I've not so far managed to run
>> it (still trying to get X compiled and operational). If Karl is correct,
>> do I need to take some action regarding the mythtv user I created, such as
>> deleting that account? Are any sort of conflicts or confusions in store as
>> a result of both me and the MythTV ebuild creating a mythtv user account?
>> Clarifications will be appreciated. Thanks.
>> _______________________________________________


> Gentoo always checks for existence before creating a user. Most
> package installs are upgrades so these init issues will then already
> have been done 

To clarify further, some users (like sshd, ldap, mail, mysql, apache
and off cause root, bin, daemon, etc.) are always created with the
same numerical uid. mythtv is not one of them.
If it is created automatically it is probably created with a mythtv
maingroup, but you could use any. I use smbmedia as my network wide
group for mythtv and other media things.

If you use users/groups over your network, there are a few things you
have to look at. On the different machines they should preferably have
the same numerical uid/gid. As I use ldap this is automatically for
me. If you use nfs, you should be aware that only rights through the
main group are transferred. 

> Tot mails,
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Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens