On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/20/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > I'm trying to get my mythfrontend box to allow a user to shut the > > >machine down without the use of a keyboard. We are only using remote > > >controls. suso doesn't seem to be an option because it requires a > > >password. (AFAICT) > > > > > > Is there some other way that I could make this work? > > > > 2 options: > > > > 1. Sudo can be setup to allow some commands to be run without a > > password. I think this entry in /etc/sudoers should work: > > > > mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown > > Yes, I have this working. My problem with this solution was slightly > deeper. To get MythTV to execute this command I have to put 'sudo > shutdown -h now' in a setup screen within the setup portion of > mythfrontend. In a general sense I don't know how to do that without a > keyboard being attached to the machine. So far I haven't found where > MythTV stores this information so that I could edit it from an ssh > login.
even so, I think this is your best path to follow. Surely you can find out where mythfrontend stores these files. I don't have mythtv installed, but I would try, in order, the mythtv website / google; and then "grep -ri" (brute force approach!) starting from /etc. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
