"The MySQL user account you use to connect to the MythTV database (and<br>
whose details appear in mysql.txt) is separate to the Linux user<br>
account you run mythbackend/mythfrontend as."<br><br>So, just add a user 'sudo adduser myuser' and then add the mysql.txt file into the .mythtv folder as well as make sure that user has been added to the DB (<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ubuntu-8.10_Source_Install">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ubuntu-8.10_Source_Install</a>)<br>
<br><b>mysql -u root -p<br>create database mythconverg;<br>set password for 'myuser'@'%' = password('myuser');<br>set password for 'myuser'@'localhost' = password('myuser');<br>
flush privileges;</b><br><br>and that will allow me to continue to run the backend/frontend as my "regular" user without problem. <br><br>Are there reasons for making them the same?<br><br>Thanks,<br>