[mythtv-users] Running mythtv-setup over X as mythtv user

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Jan 28 15:10:20 UTC 2014


On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:49, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Boehm <mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:
>> On 28.01.2014 15:23, Ian Evans wrote:
>>> Running mythbuntu and my login user is not the mythtv user and the mythtv user doesn't have a password.
>>> 
>>> I know I've run mythtv-setup over X a couple of years ago, but I'm pretty sure I ran it as my user. This time I want to make sure it's as mythtv.
>>> 
>>> I've already logged into the box as me via putty, which is set to forward X. What command line should I be trying to get this to work? I tried sudo su - mythtv mythtv-setup but got "-su: 0: Can't open mythtv-setup"
>>> 
>>> I think I'm caffeine-deficient this morning. :-)
>>> How do you ssh into your backend? Do you use "-Y" as command line option?
> 
> In windoze running putty, so I'm not seeing the ssh command line directly. Just have 'Enable X11 forwarding' set.

Try bypassing it.  On your server, open a terminal and run "xhost +machine_running_mythtvsetup".  On your client, run "export DISPLAY=machine_running_server:0.0", and then run mythtv-setup.
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