[mythtv-users] Recordings Paths

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/18/2014 03:51 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 9:49:13 PM, you wrote:
>> One remark about that. Mythtv writes recordings with permission 544 so
>> only the user you use to run the backend can change a recording.
>> Others can only read.
> Correction permission 644 not 544
>

No, (like all good *nix applications) MythTV doesn't set permissions on 
recording files it creates.  You do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

(MythTV does ensure preview files have group write permission, 
regardless of the umask in the running environment, however, due to 
rampant misconfiguration of MythTV and MythWeb years ago and the fact 
that it was easier to throw in an ugly workaround for user 
misconfiguration than to teach users how *nix and file system 
permissions work.)

Mike