User debian-transmission, permissions, et al.

[Headcase_Fargone]

Hi all,

I've been using Transmission for a while now on my home server which I recently upgraded. The issue I've always had with Transmission is one of permissions. When a file is finished downloading and moved to my Complete folder, its owner is set to debian-transmission (as listed in init.d/transmission-daemon) and I am unable to do anything with it without changing permissions.

On the last server I actually set a cron job to do a chmod 777 on the Torrents folder every few minutes, but I think this is a horrible solution. Surely there must be a better way, yes?

I know it's possible to change the user that Transmission runs as (from the debian-transmission default), but is it advisable? What should I change it to? How should that account be set up, etc?

[gunzip]

On the last server I actually set a cron job to do a chmod 777 on the Torrents folder every few minutes

you can achieve same result much more simply by changing umask in settings.json :

"umask": 0,

that will make all folder/files universally accessible (777 folder permissions, 666 file permissions). the last time i played with that setting it worked as advertised. of course you have to stop transmission before editing settings.json or the changes won't persist.

for more info see: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Ed ... dLocations

[Headcase_Fargone]

Giving this a whirl now. Thanks.