What user do you install mythbuntu as?

[Levander]

Got to reinstall Mythbuntu this week.

It seems like the user you create during the install process is the user myth-frontend runs under (because that is the user gdm auto-logins, I guess).

I've been using the user-name I always use on all my computers. But, it just seems weird running mythtv as me because I'm far from the only one who uses it. So, what name should I use?

All the backend stuff has permissions set up for user, "mythtv", so I don't want to use that. Just to keep permissions from the front-end and the back-end separate.

I guess I could use "mythf", but that sounds cryptic. Just calling the user "myth", there's no mnemonic to remember which user is for the front-end and which is for the back-end.

Anybody gotta good name?

Are there any real advantages of making up another user name? Other than just being OCD about it?

[tgm4883]

Got to reinstall Mythbuntu this week.

It seems like the user you create during the install process is the user myth-frontend runs under (because that is the user gdm auto-logins, I guess).

I've been using the user-name I always use on all my computers. But, it just seems weird running mythtv as me because I'm far from the only one who uses it. So, what name should I use?

All the backend stuff has permissions set up for user, "mythtv", so I don't want to use that. Just to keep permissions from the front-end and the back-end separate.

I guess I could use "mythf", but that sounds cryptic. Just calling the user "myth", there's no mnemonic to remember which user is for the front-end and which is for the back-end.

Anybody gotta good name?

Are there any real advantages of making up another user name? Other than just being OCD about it?

Don't use mythtv. I use my regular user name. Makes it a lot easier if I need to ssh in for some maintenance

[Levander]

Don't use mythtv. I use my regular user name. Makes it a lot easier if I need to ssh in for some maintenance

Yeah, probably. You do it as your regular user name, and you don't have to put a user name in on the ssh command line. Maybe that is the only thought to be put behind what username to use to run mythfrontend under?

I wasn't going to use "mythtv". If you read the post, I was thinking about using something like "mythf". The "f" on the end being for front.

[SiHa]

FWIW, my BE/FE is called 'mythbox', and the remote frontend is imaginatively called 'frontend'. Easy to remember you'd think, except when I needed to ssh into the backend server, a month after I'd first set it up, I spent about an hour wondering why I couldn't log into 'backend':redface:

[movieman]

Just create a new user with limited privileges: mine, oddly, is called 'mythbuntu'. That way you can also configure that account specifically for mythtv and not have to screw up your own user account: on my system, for example, that account just runs myth frontend with no window manager when it logs in.

[williammanda]

I agree with most of the posts. Just use a simple generic name so that all can use the system without having to remember some cryptic user name.
Thanks