[mythtv-users] Permissions problem

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jul 23 22:56:47 UTC 2006


On 07/23/2006 06:29 PM, A Desai wrote:
> On 7/22/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 07/21/06 16:30, A Desai wrote:
>>> I need some help with my MythTV recordings. Right now what happens 
>>> is that every new recording is recorded with a permission of 600, 
>>> where *root* is the owner and *mythtv* is the group.
>>>  
>>> This happened after I was playing around with the security settings 
>>> of /usr/local/media on my Windows box. This is what happened:
>>>  
>>> I have my all my Mythtv contents under /usr/local/media 
>>> (/usr/local/media/tv, /usr/local/media/videos, 
>>> /usr/local/media/music....etc). I have this /usr/local/media shared 
>>> as my M: drive on my Windows machine. The other day I was playing 
>>> around with the "security" of this mapped drive on my windows box 
>>> and I saw that there were two "users" there: Everyone and Root. 
>>> However, none of the rights under either of those users were checked 
>>> off. So I checked them off. However, doing this made me unable to 
>>> watch any recordings, so I tried to uncheck it back. This time I saw 
>>> that there were one more user added there (can't remember now, but 
>>> something CREATED...). Also, when I tried to uncheck it, it asked me 
>>> if I want sub-folders to inheret the permissions, etc. Anyway, 
>>> nothing worked so I went to my mythtv and did a recursive chmod 755 
>>> as well as did chgrp mythtv /usr/local/media.
>>>
>>> But this only works for the recordings I have so far. Any new 
>>> recording gets a permissions of 600, so it shows up as a recording, 
>>> there is a pic in the preview pane, but when I click on it, it just 
>>> sits there. My backend runs as root, frontend as mythtv. So every 
>>> evening when I go home from work, I have to do chmod -r 755 
>>> /usr/local/media.
>> ls -ald /usr/local/media
>>
>> gives?
> When I run ls -ald /usr/local/media/tv/*, this is what I get:
>
> -rw-------  1 root root     83882592 Jul 23 17:25
> /usr/local/media/tv/2192_20060723172400.mpg

Did you see a * on my command?  I need info about the directory, not the 
files in it.

> The other surprising thing I just noticed is that my old recordings, 
> which I make it chmod -R 755, if I try to go and watch them, I can do 
> so. However, once I start watching it, their permissions now change to 
> permission of 666! 

Sounds like the problem is that Windows is messing with your files, 
then.  If that's the case, I can't help you (I don't do Windows).

Mike


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