Hi People,

(Ever make one of those really dumb mistakes), well I had a owner issue recently with a couple files (and changed the owner of the myth directory) back to myth. I am not sure what happen there. I ended up messing up the owner of my MythWeb. The commands I used to mess everything up was

chown mythtv:mythtv /myth/tv/*.mpg
chown mythtv:mythtv /myth/tv/*.mpg
chown mythtv:mythtv /myth

My question would be does anyone know what I have to do to correct the owner of mythweb.

It would be a great help if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks again.

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Which version are you on? On R6.03 mythweb is in the following folder: owned by httpd:users. I think that you will need to find the mythweb folder and make sure the owner is httpd.

I'm not sure how your chown commands would effect anything with mythweb. However, on my box, /myth is owned by mythtv:users and some of the files in /myth/tv are mythtv:mythtv and others are mythtv:users.

I am on version R6.03, I will check the owner tonight. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction there. I will post the fix (once I figure it out).

Thanks again for the help.

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ASUS M4A78-EM w/8400GS 4G RAM pcHDTV 3000 + PVR500 (1045), 1TB, 250 & 320. Iguana IR USB (running R6)
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Asus M2NPV-VM - 1GB RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk - StreamZap
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Dragon 1.0 w/ 2G RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk StreamZap

Thanks, I seem to have fixed it with running

chown mythtv:users /myth
and then
chown mythtv:mythtv /myth/tv/*

Thanks again, my mythweb is working.

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ASUS M4A78-EM w/8400GS 4G RAM pcHDTV 3000 + PVR500 (1045), 1TB, 250 & 320. Iguana IR USB (running R6)
Frontend_1
Asus M2NPV-VM - 1GB RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk - StreamZap
Frontend_2
Dragon 1.0 w/ 2G RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk StreamZap

There are actually a relatively small set of files under /myth that have http as their group:

OBTW - /myth/backup and everything under it should be owned by root

I wish the backup files were owned by mythtv it would make backing up on anohter computer easier.

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Well it's your machine, and you're certainly free to chmod files, but the ownership and permissions were set up that way to keep unprivileged users from accessing privileged information.

Sorry I should have been more specific the backup routine runs as root (or SUDO I can't remember which) that inherently makes the files owned by root. I just don't have enough knowledge to know why it's running as root are there root owned files that need to be changed. The easier solution in my case might be to examine the script that runs the backup and make the last line change the files to MythTV owned.

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It runs as root because a less privileged user doesn't have permissions to read all the file needed for the backup. It keeps the resulting files owned by root for the same reason.

To make a long story short, the backup files are owned and only readable by root for the same reason that computer systems have passwords and privilege levels and permissions in the first place. If the backups aren't protected they provide a backdoor to the information that you generally don't want other people having or fiddling with.

This extends far beyond the obvious. Limiting permissions also keeps you from accidentally shooting yourself in the foot. I've had testing versions of MythTV choke, puke and start deleting files when the backup drive was on-line. Because it was running as mythtv and not root the backups were protected and I was able to recover.

I updated the /usr/LH/bin/mythbackup script to change the permissions of the backed-up files.

Once a week I scp from work to home, and backup my files, and my remote access is tied down by a private/publickey/passphrashe, so i dont feel exposed having my backup files readable by the mythtv user.

The change I made is below


It might help you out?

Nathan

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