How do I remove web authorization requirement?

M J

I foolishly set one up when I installed the deb package. Now I want to remove it, but if I just give blank values after I run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend" then I'm just refused authorization no matter what I enter.
I'm running all this in Raspbian Stretch.

Ron L

Maybe give a user pass then log in with those. Once in the web GUI try changing the username to and change the password to either blank or .

Restart tvheadend service.

Otherwise you can stop the service and then start tvheadend manually from a terminal with...

tvheadend -C -u [user] -g [group]

That will let you in to the web gui with no user/pass. Configure the username to and the pass to blank or . I forget exactly which works there. Save that out then kill the manual started tvheadend and restart the service.

Hopefully that works for you.

M J

Actually, it looks like it's already set that way. If you talking about Configuration|Users|Access Entries, it's got 2 rows in the grid and the username is "*" for both. The Passwords tab has nothing under it. It seems the web authorization comes from somewhere else.

Ron L

The user and group that the tvheadend server runs as is set in...

/etc/default/tvheadend

The web auth is stored in ...

/home/$TVH_USER/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol

Encrypted passwords are in...

/home/$TVH_USER/.hts/tvheadend/passwd

default $TVH_USER is hts

Configuration|Users|Access Entries is where you add/delete users and set permissions for each user. Passwords tab is to edit users' passwords. If you want no password access to the GUI I believe what you want is a user named with full rights and the password for user named set to *.

M J

That didn't have any effect. What's in the Access Entries and /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol doesn't seem to have anything to do w/the web authorization. the only way to affect that is with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend

. The results of that show up in /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/superuser. However, if I give it a bogus password instead of no password, then at least my browser will save it and make things a little easier when I log in.