[mythtv-users] Group/user numbers changing on 16.04??

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jim,

Monday, August 8, 2016, 9:06:49 PM, you wrote:

>   
> To fix things or to upgrade to new versions of Mythbuntu, I just
> rebuild my boot drive and leave my Storage directory drives alone. 
> Same thing for network attached drives on a NAS.


> The problem is the user mythtv and group mythtv have changed
> numbers.  Mythtv group usesd to be 124 and mythtv user was 115.  Now
> on the reinstall mythtv group is now 121 and mythtv user is 123.  


> This is more of an issue for NAS drives/files since I have lots of
> them. I can always recreate and format the storage directory drives
> since I don't upgrade or reinstall when there are recordings on the system.


> Is there an easy way to handle this?  I tried changing the owner
> and group on the NAS, but I got permissions issues even when doing it as SU.


> Jim A

>                                            

That is in part why I work with ldap. My UIDs and GIDs never change.

But back to the issue. What kind of permission issues, root UID 0 has
by definition all conceivable rights on a system. However ssh can be
blocked to root. It's a setting in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
"PermitRootLogin". You can set it to yes, no and some intermediate
settings to for instance only allow connection through ssl keys and
not through a password.
It is also possible that your NAS exposes a fake root user with
another UID then 0. In that case I'm out of my depth as I never really
worked with a NAS.

The simplest should be a:
 sudo chown -R mythtv <path>
  or
 sudo chown -R mythtv.mythtv <path>
on the relevant trees on the NAS

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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