Securing

[msanii]

My flatmate downloaded the remote transmission GUI and sometimes stops my torrents,the thing is he doesn't use it.Is there a way to secure it,like putting a password?Thanks.

[rb07]

Yes, but you forgot to say what are you using: the daemon? the Mac application? the Linux GTK+ app?

It should be similar for all, you'll have to find your settings.json, stop the daemon or application, edit the file... you have 2 possible changes, one if for making it 'secure' as you say:

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"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-username": "your-user-name",
"rpc-password": "your-password",

When you start the daemon or application the password will be changed to an encrypted form.

The second change is:

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"rpc-port": 9091,

9091 is the default, so if you change it that will make it even more difficult to mess with your Transmission

[Jordan]

Mind you... if he's stopping your torrents because you're using up all the bandwidth, you should consider lowering your speed limits a bit...

[SharkB8]

I'm running Transmission v2.42 on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo and having problems changing the password by editing the settings.json file. I'm using MS Notepad to do this using the procedure described in this thread. I have made sure that Transmission is disabled when modifying the settings.json file. The problem arises after I change the password and attempt to enable the Transmission Add-On I get a message via the Netgear ReadyNas interface that Transmission has failed to start. If I then disable Transmission, exit the Netgear interface, and change the rpc-authentication-required to "false" in the settings.json file Transmission will then start as advertised.

Please be advised that I'm an amateur when it comes to writing/modifying script and could be doing something wrong in the process so please don't assume that I know the obvious. Thanks for the help up front.