[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu Channel Change Permission Denied

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Mon Aug 11 18:29:08 UTC 2008


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> What happens if you login as mythtv and run the command from that  
>> user shell?
>>     
>
> I get permission denied as that user. I kinda knew that already, but  
> my question is how to give the mythtv user permission on /dev/ttyUSB0.  
> I tried the normal way of chown and chmod to allow mythtv (and  
> everyone) access, but sadly that doesn't fix the permissions issue.  
> I'm guessing something wonky with the shell that is set up for mythtv  
> to use, but I have no idea how mythbuntu works that stuff. I was  
> hoping someone who does could tell me what to change. :)
>   
Is mythtv in the dialout group? If not then try adding it to that group.

John


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