[mythtv-users] running mythtv-setup as a different

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:51:31 UTC 2018


My user name is ‘jim’.  I normally run mythtv-setup as jim.  I thought about trying to run as user ‘mythtv’ to explore an issue. So I opened a terminal and tried this:

jim at jim-xubuntu:~$ sudo su mythtv
[sudo] password for jim: 
$ mythtv-setup
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
No protocol specified
xprop:  unable to open display ':0.0'
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(zenity:5379): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:32:53.104: cannot open display: :0.0
$

Is there something that has to be setup for user mythtv to do this??

Jim A



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