[mythtv-users] SQL Permissions Startup script

[Paul Andreassen]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:29 am, Patrick Beard wrote:
> Thanks to Ronald for getting me sorted with channel changing.
>
> The next thing on my 'sort' list is backend start up at boot.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu. I installed the Ubuntu Mythtv binary package. I reckon
> debconf generates a random password for the MythTv user on install.
> However I want to have a MythTV account that I can log into and have the
> frontend start automatically. So I have changed the MythTV user's
> password. Now I can log in as MythTV user and start the backend and
> frontend from the command line, but if I try to use
> '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' as created by debconf then I get a mysql
> permission error. I've looked in the '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' script
> and can't see any mention of the password.
>
> Any Debian/Ubuntu users out there hit the same problem?
>
> Any pointers?

In my debian packages the mysql permissions for mythtv-backend are read 
from /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.  Having a quick look, if you install mythweb 
you'll probably have to change the password 
in /etc/mythtv/mythweb-settings.php.

Paul
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