Transmission-Daemon & Permission denied

[Zitan]

My settings.json looks like this:



{
"alt-speed-down": 300,
"alt-speed-enabled": true,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 435,
"alt-speed-time-day": 62,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": true,
"alt-speed-time-end": 915,
"alt-speed-up": 1,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-date": 1254838899,
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"blocklist-updates-enabled": 1,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/Downloads",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"inhibit-desktop-hibernation": 0,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"main-window-height": 500,
"main-window-layout-order": "menu,toolbar,filter,list,statusbar",
"main-window-width": 447,
"main-window-x": 221,
"main-window-y": 138,
"message-level": 2,
"minimal-view": 0,
"open-dialog-dir": "/home/torrent/seeding",
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-enabled": 0,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 1024,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"prompt-before-exit": 1,
"proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2.0000,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"recent-announce-url-0-announce": "http://9.rarbg.com:2710/announce",
"recent-announce-url-0-tier": 0,
"recent-announce-url-1-announce": "",
"recent-announce-url-1-tier": 0,
"recent-announce-url-2-announce": "",
"recent-announce-url-2-tier": 0,
"recent-announce-url-count": 1,
"recent-download-dir-1": "/root/torrent",
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{3497e6f97be37b610e4ad7d4c6901e84a202a0edAxCpHJkd",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "root",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.*,192.168.16.5,192.168.16.12",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
"sched-begin": 1380,
"sched-download-limit": 200,
"sched-end": 420,
"sched-limit-enabled": 0,
"sched-upload-limit": 100,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"show-desktop-notification": 1,
"show-filterbar": 1,
"show-notification-area-icon": 0,
"show-options-window": 1,
"show-statusbar": 1,
"show-toolbar": 1,
"sort-mode": "sort-by-name",
"sort-reversed": 0,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"statusbar-stats": "total-ratio",
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 0,
"upload-limit": 100,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"watch-dir": "/root/Desktop",
"watch-dir-enabled": 0
}


I added the root user to the group debian-transmission


usermod -a -G debian-transmission root

Then I changed the permissions for the directory



chown -R debian-transmission:debian-transmission /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/Downloads/
chmod 770 -R /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/Downloads/


I can't save files in "download-dear"... why?

[oguhhhacker]

I encountered difficulties with file permissions when I had Transmission save downloads within the /var/lib/transmission-daemon/. Therefore, I changed Transmissions setting to download to a folder within my home directory. To ensure that both I and the debian-transmission user had read/write permissions, I added my account to the debian-transmission group (which is created when you install transmission), and I changed the group ownership of my torrent download directory to debian-transmission. Doing so grants the debian-transmission group read/write access to that folder, preserves read/write/execute access for my account, and prevents access to all others.

$ sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission mjdescy
$ chgrp debian-transmission ~/dl/torrent
$ chmod 770 ~/dl/torrent

I also changed the “umask” setting from the default of 18 to 2. That means transmission-daemon will create files with read/write permissions set at both the user and group level.

- http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/04/21/transmission-install-on-ubuntu-10-04-server-lucid