change permissions of the download directory and probably change group of transmission daemon default user.Finally change umask of the transmission daemon by adding UMask=007 to /etc/systemd/system//rvice, Good choice is to make the download directory editable by a group of your stations users.Ĭhange umask in settings.json to umask = 0 or even umask=7 (decimal explanation, the json markup language only accepts numbers in base 10). If you have transmission on a server, you might want to edit downloaded files from local stations. Or you can edit directly the file /etc/systemd/system//rvice. The file is then located then in /etc/systemd/system//nf. Where "USER" is the name of the user you want to run the daemon as. In case you want to set a different user than the default debian-transmission user, you need to create a configuration file to overwrite default settings. "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1": IPs allowed to access the daemon, something like "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*", is the formatting for the IP addresses "rpc-username": "transmission": user name for web interface.
"rpc-password": "*(Hh09ajdf-9djfd89ash7a8ggG&*g98h8009hj90": the password for the web interface, replace the hash with a plain text password and it will be hashed on reload
The setting.json file is quite self explanatory but the common things that might need editing are: Mcedit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json You need to stop it first, make changes and start it again. The transmission-daemon can be configured by editing /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.Ĭhanges made manually to the file /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json while the daemon is running will be silently overwritten on transmission exit. The transmission-gtk and transmission-qt clients can be configured via the application or via ~/.config/transmission/settings.json.
On a server you can install a BitTorrent daemon using a web interface with apt, installing also suggested packages 'cause you might need upnp and other things.Īpt install transmission-daemon -install-suggests Transmission-remote-cli - A ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon (As of February 2020 only available for Debian stable buster and older releases it has been removed from testing and unstable, so it will probably not be present in future Debian stable releases.) Transmission-qt - A BitTorrent client using a QT interface. Transmission-gtk - A BitTorrent client using a GTK interface. Transmission-cli - A collection of cli tools for transmission. If you have installed your Debian Gnome desktop from tasksel then transmission-gtk should be installed by default, but it is possible to use one more of the following packages, depending on your requirements: Change permissions on download directory.