Bug #204
Impossible to logon to webui (file permission problem ?)
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Description
Hello !
I have a strange problem on one of my Ubuntu Karmic servers (on the other Ubuntu Machine it is working fine)
There is no way i can log into the webUI. It always gives an authentication problem error.
First i tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure hts-tvheadend
but whatever credentials i type here it is not working with the webui.
I also tried to remove and reinstall everything like this:
sudo apt-get remove hts-tvheadend sudo deluser hts sudo delgroup hts sudo rm -rf /home/hts sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get install hts-tvheadend
It does not even ask the credentials again. Than i run reconfigure but still no luck.
I supect that i have some kind of a file permission problem.
Could you tell where the credentials are stored in the filesystem ? Maybe this file has a bad permission.
On the system i changed the default file permission mask to 770 for all users. Maybe this has to do something with the problem.
Thanks in advance
History
Updated by Andreas Smas over 14 years ago
Can you spot anything suspicious in the logfile (/var/log/daemon.log)
Updated by Alan - over 14 years ago
Thanks you for the help.
I checked the daemon.log and found out that the daemon had no permission to access /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend directory.
Strangely when i tried
sudo chmod -R 777 /home/hts
it did not help. Than i found the real problem. It was the /home directory what i previously changed the permissions from root:root to root:users. Somehow this prevented the tvheadend daemon from working properly.
Eighter changeing back the permission:
sudo chown root:root /home
or setting the permission
sudo chmod 777 /home
solved the problem.
Thank you for the help !!!
Updated by Hein Rigolo over 14 years ago
A bit drastic to change it to 777 and root:root and certainly not recommended
Are you running the tvheadend process with a different user then the default hts?
what version are you running?
Updated by Alan - over 14 years ago
It is by default root:root, i just changed it to root:users previously to let the other users browse the /home directory. This caused the problem somehow. Changing back to the default root:root solved ALL problems. The chmod 777 was just a workaround, but i agree it is not a good solution.
I am using Ubuntui Karmic anyway.
Updated by Andreas Smas about 14 years ago
- Status changed from New to Fixed
- Found in version set to invalid