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transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by toto56 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:59 pm

I have read a lot of posts on the permission denied problem but none solved my problem.

I have transmission-daemon running on ubuntu server 10.04. I acces it via the WebUI.
The download folder is a Samba shared folder that I mounted with debian-transmission user.

When I had a torrent, the file created by transmission-daemon is owned by root and therefore it says «Permission denied».
To enable the download I do a chown -R debian-transmission /media/myDLfolder and it starts.
But each time I add a new torrent I have to do this.

Is there a way to have the newly created files owned by debian-transmission or my user?

(I installed transmission-daemon with sudo apt-get install debian-transmission if it helps)

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Post by Iw9WlOuY » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:54 pm

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by toto56 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:44 am

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Post by toto56 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:36 am

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Post by toto56 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:38 am

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Post by rb07 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:46 pm

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Post by toto56 » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:35 am

Thanks for your reply.

I am on ubuntu server, so I stop the daemon with sudo (sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop). Start/stop transmission daemon is only allowed with sudo (root).
The folder is mounted with debian-transmission user, the files are owned by debian-transmission user and group (chown -R debian-transmission, chgrp -R debian-transmission). I have made a chmod -R 777 on the download folder.
But still when a new file is created, it is owned by root.

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by rb07 » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:15 pm

Then it is running as root.

Let’s try something simple, run:

Is the second field (the user name) different than root?

If it is

• root: did you check that the init script changes users? If it does, did you check that the program is not suid (set user id)?
• not root: check if the download directory has not the sgid (set group id) permission.

There are probably more possible causes, like your Samba options. but this is a Transmission forum, and all of these has nothing to do with Transmission, its about using Linux.

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by toto56 » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:27 pm

Thanks for your reply,

The command ps -ef | grep trans returns that transmission-daemon is running under user 104 which is debian-transmission

I am now testing with the download folder on a the local folder (no samba mount) and I still have the same problem.

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by toto56 » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:44 pm

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by costales » Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:48 pm

mkdir /your_path/progress
mkdir /your_path/completed
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission your_user
chgrp debian-transmission /your_path/progress
chgrp debian-transmission /your_path/completed
chmod 770 /your_path/progress
chmod 770 /your_path/completed
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
sudo adduser your_user debian-transmission
sudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
sudo chown your_user -R /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/
sudo chown your_user -R /your_path/progress
sudo chown your_user -R /your_path/completed
sudo chown your_user -R /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

And change in the file:
sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

«rpc-whitelist»: «127.0.0.1» > «rpc-whitelist»: «*.*.*.*»,
«rpc-password»: «password» > «rpc-password»: «your_password»,
«download-dir»: «/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads» > «download-dir»: «/your_path/completed»
«incomplete-dir»: «/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads» > «incomplete-dir»: «/your_path/progress»

Just restart the daemon:

service transmission-daemon start

Re: transmission-daemon permission denied on ubuntu server

Post by Cuore Sportivo » Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:58 am

Hello everyone and sorry for digging such an old thread, but I have the exact same problem.

I have a samba shares server (running on a Ubuntu VM) with guest access enabled, so that guests can read/write files.
On another Ubuntu VM, I have installed transmission daemon, and I have also mounted on /media/torrents the torrents folder of my ubuntu shares server (//samba.local.ip/torrents), so that transmission can immediately download torrents to the local folder.

Even though I can read/write files without any problem to the samba shares, when transmission starts to download any torrent, after a couple of seconds, it will get an error (permission denied).

I added transmission-daemon to user group (sudo usermod -a -G user debian-transmission), but nothing changes. I also tried to change the group owner of /media/torrents, but I get a permission denied.

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“Error: permission denied” error from Transmission Client

When I try downloading files with Transmission I get:

I’ve tried searching for this problem, and everyone always says to set permissions correctly, but I’ve done that:

This is running on a debian headless server and I did have it working until I moved the folders out of my home directory and into one of their own; ever since then I haven’t been able to get it up and running, even in my home directory again. I’ve even purge removed it and installed it again, setting it all up following one of the countless number of guides step for step, and I have gotten nowhere.

I’m not sure if transmission-daemon -f can help you guys to help me, but I thought what it outputs may be relevant because I saw «transmission-daemon requiring authentication»:

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Your permissions aren’t right—but its somewhere you’re not looking:

It could be on /home/Transmission (you need to make sure it has execute (x) permission on that; ls -ld /home/Transmission to check). As well as on /home , but /home should be a+x already.

Alternatively, it could be on the files themselves—you didn’t give an ls -l Transmission/Downloads/ .

If you’re running SELinux or similar, you may also need to configure that.

Also, are you sure your daemon is running as user debian-transmission ? If so, as root:

That should run without error; if you get permission denied, you definitely have a permission problem.

You may also find running strace on the running daemon to be useful. For example, if the daemon is pid 123:

and leaving that running as you add another torrent, or stop/start an existing torrent should quickly find you the permission denied error. It may turn out that its a file you didn’t know Transmission was trying to access.

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Permission Denied

Post by Rebel » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:24 pm

Recently I encountered a problem downloading torrents, and I’m posting this thread so that it may help someone else.

For some reason, all of the newer torrents I had added would start, and then after a few seconds they would automatically pause. Each one said Error: Permission Denied. Every time I restarted them, they would pause again.

My first thought was this was a tracker issue, and I needed to be registered with them. However, this was happening with a bunch of torrents, and they were downloaded from sites that I’ve never had a problem with before. I had 2 torrents that were still functioning just fine. I searched the Torrent site’s forums, and then searched the Transmission forums, but there was no answer.

I didn’t realize at that time that this was only occurring with the newer torrents.

After a few days, for unrelated reasons, I was messing with the permissions for my external drives. I set them all to ignore ownership on this volume. When I opened Transmission and hit Resume, all the torrents began downloading normally. After thinking about it, I remembered I had changed the permissions a few days before, as I was diagnosing a system issue.

So the entire problem was a simple permissions issue. Transmission was being denied access to to its Download folder on one of my external drives. Only the torrents that had been in progress before I had changed the permissions the first time were working properly.

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Transmission: permission denied on USB disk

I have Raspberry Pi running RaspBMC with a WD MyBook connected using USB. The drive is automatically mounted to /media/My Book . I have created a folder /media/My Book/downloads and I have set Trasmission’s download directory to be /media/My Book/downloads .

When I try to download a file, Transmission says

So I guess the problem is that transmission runs under different user than pi and cannot write to the folder. However when I execute

the operations succeeds without any error but the permissions do not change, they stay 700 just for the owner.

What am I doing wrong and how can I enabled Transmission to write to that directory?

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After lots of reading and frustration. First of all, make sure the normal user has read and write acces to the USB drive. The correct ‘non-root’ fix for having write acces to the USB drive is:

Step 1: Stop transmission daemon

Step 2: Add pi to debian-transmission group

Step 3: changing the daemon-user

Change USER to pi .

Step 4 Change the rights of the configuration files folder

Step 5: Set the correct permissions for the download / incomplete folders

Step 5: Start transmission daemon

The problem was the way the USB disk was automonted. I mounted it manualy with mount -t ntfs-3g and it started working.

I’m no linux expert, but you could try this, might work. Most of this is info came from http://www.superfecta.ca/?p=44

I know running as root is a big linux no no (not sure if that counts as running in root) but it worked for me so I’m fine with it. You could try USER=pi instead but I got no love there, so I stuck with root

None of the answers here worked for me, so I am writing a new one referencing https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-torrentbox/ which worked great for me and allowed me to run transmission as pi user to access my USB drive. This is not directly answering the OP but this question is very popular (first Google result) for this sort of problem so I put it here.

and find USER in the top of the file and change to:

Then we need to chown some files into our permissions scope:

And then run (this is really important else the daemon from the service will just run as debian-transmission )

and find user there and change to:

and the reload the service unit

And finally we need to symlink our settings file to the pi home directory and give it permissions:

And then start transmission again:

and you’re done. It should now work.

I believe your problem is your USB stick is formatted as NFTS or FAT, filesystems that do not support the per-user/group permissions. The solution is to reformat as ext4. If you do that, you will also have much less lag if you are using your Pi as a media center. The drivers for the Pi are much faster when you use ext4.

I think one of the main things people are overlooking is that you should mount your usb/external drive in /mnt/myUsbDrive folder, and NOT in /media/pi/myUsbDrive.

I tried every single answer given on this discussion (including root) in a hundred different ways with different options and could not get transmission to save on my usb SSD drive. Then while reading something different, it was mentioned not to mount in /media/pi since daemons or other groups may not have access. So i mount the USB drive to /mnt/usb_disk, set the paths in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json to /mnt/usb_disk/downloads and transmission starts saving to the disk.

FYI, I do have user=pi in /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon.

FYI, I did change owner of /mnt/usb_disk/downloads to pi and group to debian-transmission with 777 permissions.

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Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon

I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission.

I tried chmod -r 777 on this folder without success.

Following is the output of ps -ef | grep transmission

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Assuming the path to the download folder is /home/chen/TV shows , run the following:

add chen to the debian-transmission group

change the folder ownership

grant write access to the group

Stop the deamon with

The last thing to do is change the file creation mask, so that the downloaded files would be writeable by chen.

… and change «umask»: 18 to «umask»: 2 . Hit Ctrl + O to save and Ctrl + X to exit.

Start the daemon with

Check if you’re using an «incomplete» folder. The error can be misleading in this case and it may be the incomplete folder you do not have write access to.

This is a permission issue based on the user ID that is running Transmission. Transmission sets up a default user that you might not expect on first install. The user name is debian-transmission .

I will explain how to change that:

1. Stop the Transmission daemon sudo service transmission-daemon stop
2. Open the Transmission config file for editing: sudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
3. Find the line that says USER=debian-transmission and change it to the user that owns the folder in question. If you are not concerned about security issues, you can also use USER=root in this file. (Not advised, but good for troubleshooting).
4. Alternatively (instead of point number 3), modify the /etc/fstab folder to mount the folder with correct permissions for the user that runs the transmission-daemon.
5. Start the Transmission daemon sudo service transmission-daemon start

This might be an apparmor profile problem. Transmission runs under the sanitized_helper profile in apparmor.

Look for complaints in /var/log/kern.log. grep transm /var/log/kern.log , particularly just after trying to run transmission and it failing.

This just happened to me. I found this page, was intimidated by all the jargon, so I restarted Transmission, reserved the torrent file to a different location, and saved the torrent data to the same different location (desktop). Worked like a charm.

Since this is the top search result in Google, for anyone reading this, I spend over an hour trying to get it to work. Turns out, the downloads folder specified in settings.json is «Downloads» instead of «downloads». Note the case.

my problem was that transmission somehow was running as the user «transmissions-daemon» instead of the user it was supposed to run with.

In my case the problem was how the drive was being mounted. Using this in /etc/fstab worked for me:

Make sure that the path for your incomplete torrents is absolute. My main directory was using

/path-to-download , which gave me an error. My incomplete directory was

I received an error the first time I tried to download a torrent not using an absolute directory. I fixed that, but kept receiving a permission denied error, even after adding the correct permissions. Once I fixed my incomplete path to an absolute path, everything worked.

Mounting the external drive into my home directory resolved this issue;

sdxx is the name of your hdd. you can use the following command to find yours:

None of these suggestions worked for me so I just set fstab to use transmission-daemon’s default download directory as the mountpoint to mount my USB stick.

1. First I set the ownership of my USB stick to match that of the default download directory:

sudo chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission /media/pi/[mountpoint]/

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Insert the following text:

UUID=[insert device UUID here] /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads ext4 rw,user,exec 0 0

Note: you can find your USB sticks UUID by running sudo blkid

1. You can test whether it is writing data to your USB stick by running df -ha and checking whether the data written to your USB stick increases when you add a new torrent. Note that the data increase happens all at once when you add a new torrent and NOT gradually as the torrent downloads.

I added the debian-transmission user to my $USER group:

In my case I have the «download-dir», «incomplete-dir» (and «watch-dir») situated in my home-directory.

(presume my userid is ‘ [user] ‘)

ls -la /home/[user]/Transmission results in:

As you can see the user debian-transmission has all the necessary permissions to write in those directories except. it has no read and execute permission on /home/[user] . So as a result, debian-transmission cannot access its subdirectories either.

• Lesson learned: check the permissions for the entire path ! Not just the final target directory !

There are now 3 options (choose one !):

1. Add the group [user] to the user debian-transmission ( sudo usermod -a -G [user] debian-transmission )
2. Set x-permissions on world for /home/[user] ( sudo chmod o+x /home/[user] )
3. Stop the deamon, move the whole directory tree /home/[user]/Transmission to the home directory of debian-transmission . Set ownership of those directories to debian-transmission:debian-transmission . Edit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json likewise. Add group debian-transmission to [user] and -finally- start the deamon again.

Option 1 and 2 have some minor security issues so option 3 is probably the best.

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На большинстве ресурсов (форумы, обсуждения) подразумевается, что если качать файлы этим клиентом, то каталог, куда идет скачивание и сами файлы должны быть с правами самого демона. Точнее говоря, даже не подразумевается, что его можно запустить от имени другого пользователя.

Есть момент, концептуально отличающийся от принятого — эта торрентокачалка может использоваться не только для того, что бы качать ею файлы в каталог $Downloaddir. К примеру, у меня может быть каталог, где я храню книги, документы, фильмы, музыку итд. Что-то раздается, над чем-то может идти работа, а это доступ через samba, или через ftp. Что-то вообще не раздается через торрентокачалку. То есть, политика работы с данными — разнородная. Компьютер, где все это хранится — это не десктоп. Эдакий nas. Десктопом, вообще выступает OS X, которая через nfs, или самбу ходит на такой nas.

теперь, картина. Запускается transmission. Качает файлы в свою transmission диру. На нее наложены свои права. Обращение к демону идет с OS X, посредством Transmission remote GUI. В этой морде есть возможность перемещения файлов. Мне не совсем удобно, что все файлы, которые качаются, прыгают в эту Download директорию. То есть, все валится в одну кучу.
переместить же я эти данные способом Transmission re,ote GUI не могу, ибо в моем медиа каталоге права традиционные — юзерские. И самба настроена так же — парольный доступ под юзера Ubuntu.

Вопрос. Почему принято скидывать все в одну кучу, когда речь заходит об этом клиенте?
Просто, в инете такая тема (подход) в 90% процентов случаев.
Люди описывают альтернативы настроек этого клиента, но на лицо костыли. Кто-то вообще советует хреначить права 777. Другие, более интеллигентно — поправки  sgid на директории всей своей «медии», замена прав такого пространства на юзера transmission.
Гентушники имеют возможность пускать клиента от обычного юзера.
Под Ubuntu — это не проходит:

cat /etc/default/transmission-daemon | grep USER
USER="zanzibar"
sudo service transmission-daemon restart
ps -ef | grep trans
106       1429     1  1 12:24 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
Честно сказать, третьи сутки пытаюсь распутать эту проблему.

И второй вопрос. Главный. Почему появляются такие сложности? Это такие руки у меня?

sudo adduser debian-transmission users

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