[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu Channel Change Permission Denied

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Aug 11 18:56:16 UTC 2008


On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:29 AM, John Finlay wrote:

> 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.


Yeah, that user is already a member of the dialout group.

bderman at mythtv:~$ sudo adduser mythtv dialout
The user `mythtv' is already a member of `dialout'.



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