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Impossible to logon to webui (file permission problem ?)

Bug #204: Impossible to logon to webui (file permission problem ?)

Added by Alan - about 16 years ago. Updated almost 16 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
General
Target version:
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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

Updated by Andreas Smas about 16 years ago Actions
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Can you spot anything suspicious in the logfile (/var/log/daemon.log)

Updated by Alan - about 16 years ago Actions
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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 about 16 years ago Actions
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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 - about 16 years ago Actions
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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 almost 16 years ago Actions
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  • Status changed from New to Fixed
  • Found in version set to invalid
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