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Adding users? Letting them do stuff?

Added by Tim Bates over 12 years ago

First up, thanks to the devs for this project... Perfect for what I want (web based scheduling without any bloated media playback systems - it's going on a headless server). And seems to be the only project offering this sort of thing.

But, so call me an idiot - I can't seem to make the Access Control page work at all. Adding a new entry appears to work as I get a fairly blank new entry. But saving changes fails with "transaction aborted". Attempting to delete the new line gives "Unable to delete".

I just want to create an extra, non-admin user for the simpler users in my family to be able to get in and schedule TV recordings without being able to break anything. Even better if it hides tabs people can't access - does it?


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RE: Adding users? Letting them do stuff? - Added by Hein Rigolo over 12 years ago

how did you start tvheadend? what system/distribution? which version of tvheadend?

RE: Adding users? Letting them do stuff? - Added by Tim Bates over 12 years ago

The server it's intended to run on is Debian Squeeze 32 bit (running as an OpenVZ guest). But it also does the same thing on Linux Mint 12 (32 bit). In both cases I've used the 2.12 .deb package (one via apt-get, the other by downloading the file directly).

I've loaded it both via the supplied init.d script and by running it directly as root. Mostly been running as root on the Debian VM and letting the script load it on Mint.

Last night I actually managed to work around it. It seems that the failed rule creation will actually save a file anyway, although not with the right settings. Manually editing it worked perfectly, and will probably work fine for my needs anyway :P

Is it worth trying a build from git?

RE: Adding users? Letting them do stuff? - Added by Hein Rigolo over 12 years ago

yes, it is certainly better to build directly from git at the moment.

I suspect there is something going wrong with directory permissions that prevents tvheadend from loading/writing it config files. Please keep in mind that tvheadend allows you change the user/group that it runs as via startup parameters. And also keep in mind that if you start with the -C parameter tvheadend starts with an empty config.

Hein

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