MythTv - the mythtv user

[Michael MacLeod]

I imagine certain maintainence scripts are run as the mythtv user (think mtd
and so forth), and the backend records the shows as the mythtv user I
believe (or at least the mythtv user seems to own everything in
/media/mythtv/recordings (or where ever you put it)). I certainly wouldn't
delete it, as it might be necessary for some of these tasks.

Personally I have my system set up to automatically log in as the mythtv
user and to run mythfrontend in the xsession file, and since my room mates
also need access to the account, it's easier to have a semi-public mythtv
user where we all know the password, rather than handing out my own username
and password to all my room mates. Wouldn't want them changing my password
on me, even by accident.

On 1/21/07, Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I have set up SuSE 10.2 on two computers and it was quite easy to get a
> mythtv
> frontend working.  As part of the setup, the mythtv user was created by
> something.  The fontend seems to function just fine with 'me' as the user,
> is
> there any reason to keep the mythtv user?
>
>
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