[mythtv-users] Permissions on recordings

[Mike Perkins]

On 27/12/12 21:36, Paul Stillwell wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 12/26/2012 11:35 PM, Paul Stillwell wrote:
>>> I also noticed that new recordings are owned by 'root' and group 'root'.
>>> Is that correct? I would have assumed that they were owned by 'mythtv',
>>> group 'mythtv'.
>>
>> They will be owned by the user running the mythbackend process.
>>
>
> Wouldn't the user running mythbackend be root? I'm not super familiar with
> how things get run at startup, but I'm assuming that things that get set to
> start when the system boots would be owned by root. Is that correct?
>
>
I hope not. On my Debian system all the myth programs run with user 'mythtv'. It
was the same on previous distros I have used.

If you think about what you are suggesting, that would imply that *every* 
program run as a service would be run as user root, and that would definitely be 
a bad idea.

The startup procedures for your distro will have a method for choosing the user 
to run the service under.

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Mike Perkins