I am using Putty and trying to logon as 'mythtv'. As it was unsuccesful I changed the password :



in order to ensure that I entered the right password. As you may have guessed, this did not work either. Is the 'mythtv' user a special case that can not be changed?

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R7.3: 0.22.20091023-1, Hauppauge PVR-500 (Philips FQ1236A MK4), Gigabyte Gigabyte EG45M-UD2H, E5200 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 256MB

For security reasons, both root and mythtv users have been disabled for ssh which means they could probably could be re-enabled, but shouldn't. The simplest approach is to use the additional user you created when you install KM. It is unique to you and more difficult for others to hack.

Thank you for the explanation. I will avoid using the mythtv logon for ssh.

Is there a way to logon as someone else, like su -?

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After you login with another user



or

to login as root.

After I have logged in as another user I tried:
However I got this:

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Britney

BTW - I always recommend using the "-" with su since it avoids silly environment problems. Thus to become root from another user:

This is one of the dozens of things that I learned at sysadmin boot camp 20-some years back which have stuck with me ever since and saved me endless grief.

BTW - If you've installed R5F1 and you haven't read the hints & hazards posting doing so is highly recommended. It can save you a huge amount of frustration and annoyance. For example this is coverd there as Known Change 6.1...

You've already logged in and initiated a shell. If you want to change users, either logout and login as that user, or use su <username>. In your example above, su mythtv

To be sure you're completely using the user's environment, use su - mythtv

EDIT: What tjc said... /EDIT