docker on debian starts but asks for password

Dexter Filmore

Created a docker container from the ghcr image with
docker run -d --name tvheadend --restart unless-stopped --net=host -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Berlin -v /tvheadend/config:/config ghcr.io/tvheadend/tvheadend:master-debian
(maybe this should go onto the website?)
and it starts and I can go host:9981 but cannot login.
I tried to rm -d the container, then run
docker run --rm -it --net=host -v /tvheadend/config:/var/lib/tvheadend ghcr.io/tvheadend/tvheadend:master-debian -C
once, ctrl-c that one and rerun the "real" command, but no cigar, still cannot login.
I am seasoned with linux but at 101 with docker. What am I doing wrong?

DeltaMikeCharlie

Dexter Filmore What am I doing wrong?

You could try from a different browser or device just in case there are some cached credentials hanging around.

I don't know about the Docker part, but if you can find the command that launches the tvheadend binary within the container, add --noacl to the end of that command.

This will give you access to TVH without credentials. This will allow you to reset your password.

Once complete, remove --noacl, restart and then try to login again.

Dexter Filmore

Here's docker-compose.yaml. I tried both -C and --noacl. Still asks for credentials and doesn't accept "empty".

services:
  tvheadend:
    image: ghcr.io/tvheadend/tvheadend:master-debian
    container_name: tvheadend
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
      - RUN_OPTS= --noacl
    volumes:
      - /path/to/tvheadend/data:/config
      - /path/to/recordings:/recordings
#    web:
#      network_mode: "host"
    ports:
      - 9981:9981
      - 9982:9982
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri #optional
      - /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb #optional
    restart: unless-stopped

Dexter Filmore

I can only guess here, I think it has to do how tvheadend is invoked through tini , but I'm far from understanding the inner workings.

Inside the container there is

$ ps auxf 
USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
tvheade+      48  0.0  0.0   4320  3736 pts/0    Ss   23:27   0:00 bash
tvheade+      65  0.0  0.0   6396  3680 pts/0    R+   23:35   0:00  \_ ps auxf
tvheade+       1  0.0  0.0   2564  1552 ?        Ss   23:01   0:00 /usr/bin/tini -- /init
tvheade+       7  0.1  0.3 981064 51340 ?        Sl   23:01   0:02 tvheadend

and /init contains

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# Copyright (C) 2023 Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
#
# A beginning user should be able to docker run image bash (or sh) without
# needing to learn about --entrypoint
# https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#consistency

set -eu

bin='tvheadend'

# run command if it is not starting with a "-" and is an executable in PATH
if [ "${#}" -le 0 ] || \
   [ "${1#-}" != "${1}" ] || \
   [ -d "${1}" ] || \
   ! command -v "${1}" > '/dev/null' 2>&1; then
	entrypoint='true'
fi

exec ${entrypoint:+${bin:?}} "${@}"

exit 0

and I think the options are not transported into that tini call?

Dexter Filmore

I had the config and recordings paths wrong in the compose file, that's been fixed.

Dexter Filmore

Ok, that's misleading: the issue at hand not.