[mythtv-users] MythFrontend only runs as root

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:09, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> I've attached my mythbackend startup script, it looks like it's
> starting up with the user mythtv, however I am using the user myth.
> Also, below are the permissions on /dev/video*:
>
> [myth at localhost dev]$ ls -al video*
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Dec 23 12:37 video ->
> v4l/video0
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Dec 23 12:37 video0 ->
> v4l/video0
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Dec 23 12:37 video1 ->
> v4l/video1
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Dec 23 12:37 video32 ->
> v4l/video32
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Dec 23 12:37 video33 ->
> v4l/video33
>
> It looks like any user should be able to access the video devices.
> You think it would be the mythbackend startup user then? I'm checking
> this all from work, so I can't check to see if any changes made a
> difference right now, but I will when I get home.

What you're looking at here is the permission of the symbolic links /
dev/video* that point to /dev/v4l/video*.  The permission on the links 
is not necessarily the same as the permissions on the actual device 
nodes.  What are the permissions on /dev/v4l/* ?

-JAC