Transmission as regular user on NAS?
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:41 am
Hi all,
OK so I am running a transmission daemon on my NAS. The NAS is a Western Digital MyCloudEx2 Ultra. It comes with Transmission 2.94 that is installable through the NAS itself.
The problem is that it is running as the root user. Any files and folders that get created/downloaded through Transmission cannot be deleted, changed or altered except through Transmission itself. If I run chmod -R 777 on the specific files/folders, that solves the problem, but it only works for files and folders that are already there. Anything which it creates later will still lack the permissions.
Somebody suggested that I run Transmission as a regular user, and not the root user. But I am not sure if this is possible or how to go about doing this.
Is there any way to make it so that all of the files Transmission downloads going forward will automatically have full read/write/edit permissions?
Thanks!
OK so I am running a transmission daemon on my NAS. The NAS is a Western Digital MyCloudEx2 Ultra. It comes with Transmission 2.94 that is installable through the NAS itself.
The problem is that it is running as the root user. Any files and folders that get created/downloaded through Transmission cannot be deleted, changed or altered except through Transmission itself. If I run chmod -R 777 on the specific files/folders, that solves the problem, but it only works for files and folders that are already there. Anything which it creates later will still lack the permissions.
Somebody suggested that I run Transmission as a regular user, and not the root user. But I am not sure if this is possible or how to go about doing this.
Is there any way to make it so that all of the files Transmission downloads going forward will automatically have full read/write/edit permissions?
Thanks!