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

[Jim Abernathy]

> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 23:01:36 +0200
> From: hikavdh at gmail.com
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Group/user numbers changing on 16.04??
> 
> Hoi Jim,
> 
> Monday, August 8, 2016, 10:41:41 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >   
> 
> 
> 
> >> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 22:13:41 +0200
> >> From: hikavdh at gmail.com
> >> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Group/user numbers changing on 16.04??
> >> 
> >> 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
> >> 
> 
> 
> > When I try sudo chown mythtv:mythtv /media/media/TV_Shows/*
> > I get permission denied.  The mount in etc/fstab for the NAS is:
> 
> 
> > //192.168.0.250/media /media/media cifs
> > user=mythtv,password=myth_password 0 0 
> 
> 
> > I had to give the user mythtv a password for this to work
> > originally.  The network drive mounts and I can do stuff on the
> > drive as my user which is UID 1000 on both systems.  mythtv user is different now.
> 
> 
> > Jim A
> 
> 
> I now see you have mounted it as cifs, so it goes through sambas
> rights system. That could be the problem. That's also why you need the
> password. Hopefully you also have it as nfs-mount enabled on the NAS.
> The command I gave earlier then hopefully will mount it as nfs.
> Else I think you have to see if you can export (temporarily) as nfs,
> preferably with another name, and mount it as root.
> 
> Thanks,  I easily enabled NFS on the NAS4Free system and mounted it as root and could fix all the permissions and ownerships.
The mount I used for those interested was:
sudo mount 192.168.0.250:/mnt/media as /media/media

> 
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> 
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> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> 
> De lerende Mens
> 
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