On 8/25/19 12:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM The Bit Pit <thebit...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 8/24/19 5:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM The Bit Pit <thebit...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Group is not needed. mythtv uses the video group. This is already in my pull
request #12763 to bump to version 30.0 patch. I added myself as proxy
maintainer to acct-user/mythtv
I assume it is in the video group so that it can access device nodes in /dev?
That is correct.
mythtv also creates and displays many video files shared with other
applications. I thought the "video" group was a way to permit that. Is
there a better way than putting them in the "video" group?
The video group is primarily used by udev to grant access to graphics
hardware. Using the video group to control access to video recording
files seems wrong to me.
If you need a common group to allow access to files shared among
several applications, you should probably create a separate group for
that.
OK! You have convinced me i need a mythtv group too.
It might be a nice idea to give it its own primary group id, This
ensures that files it creates will not be automatically exposed to any
other random users that are members of the "video" group. You can add
it to as many supplementary groups as you need.
I need you to create a acct-group/uucp as it is not in the tree yet.
Please note that recent versions of udev/systemd use the "dialout"
group for serial devices instead of the old "uucp" group. You might
want to just switch over to that.
I agree and withdraw my request for "uucp" group. It is in out of date
mythtv documentation and the previous ebuild.
Should I check the use flags for flags enabling support for devices
needing "dialout" group and modify the installed mythtv user rather than
including group "dialout" in the "acct-user/mythtv" package?
I'm not sure it would be appropriate to modify the group membership of
the mythtv user within the media-tv/mythtv ebuild.
Maybe you could add USE flags to control group membership in the
acct-user/mythtv ebuild. You could then depend on these USE flags
withing the media-tv/mythtv ebuild as needed.
Or maybe I'm over-complicating this; opinions welcome.
I like this idea. It would eliminate an awkward entry in media-tv/mythtv
ebuilds.
It will automatically install the required acct-group/... package and
add groups to mythtv user. This puts the control of a user's group in
the acct-user/... package where it logically belongs. The same use flag
that enables an option in media-tv/mythtv can also be used in
acct-user/mythtv to add groups.
