[mythtv-users] mythbuntu-diskless - how to set client hostname?

[Mike Perkins]

On 29/12/10 00:20, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>
> 3. Strangely, the user and group IDs for the mythtv user are different
> on the server and client machines.  This causes problems if you want
> to use NFS to share files between the server and client.  I dealt with
> this by settling on a common uid/gid, using "vipw" and "vigr" in both
> the server and chroot environments to change them, and then using
> something like "find / -user<old_mythtv_uid>" to locate files owned
> by mythtv and chown them back to the new mythtv uid.
>
There's nothing particularly strange about this, it is just a result of system 
users being created (or not) depending on which system services get installed on 
each box. Sometimes they are allocated fixed UID/GID pairs, sometimes they just 
get the next available entry.

You've found a way round this, so you're all set. Next time you plan to do an 
upgrade which nukes most of your installation, you might try what I have been 
doing since I found this particular problem:

When you create the master backend, create all the required users up front 
before installing the myth software (and any other software that might cause 
similar problems). This will allow you to specify (override) the UID and GID 
that is suggested so that you have some control over the process.

I make my mythtv user a normal user - in fact I keep a list of all users and 
manually create them on all boxes (one of these days I'm going to figure out 
LDAP, so help me). Making mythtv a normal user means I can put it's $HOME on 
/home/mythtv rather than /var/lib/mythtv - avoiding possible disk fill problems 
and retention over upgrades. Only then do I install the myth software. Then, 
using that list of all users and their UID/GID values I create those same users 
on all my other boxes.

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Mike Perkins