[mythtv-users] I 'd like a 2nd opinion on this mythburn solution.

[Phill Wiggin]

Warren wrote:

>Richard Bronosky wrote:
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>>Okay, so I have done this:
>>user='www-data'; group='cdrom'; usermod -g `id -g $user` -G `echo \`id
>>-G $user\` | sed 's/\s\+/,/g'`,`grep '^cdrom' /etc/group|awk -F: '{
>>print $3 }'` $user
>>...which should work for anyone's system, if they alter the user and
>>group variables.
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>>What I can't figure out is if a reinit or reboot is necessary.  I will
>>try burning again when I get home.
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>>,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,
>>       RichardBronosky
>>,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,
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>A reboot is nor necessary.  Changes to the user and group files should
>be immediately seen.
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>W
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You'd probably have to restart the processes (apache? www-data?) 
effected.  IIRC, active user sessions don't pick up changes to their 
group settings until they're logged out and back in (or the service is 
restarted).

--Phill