Ubuntu – Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon

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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.

Please help!

Following is the output of ps -ef | grep transmission

chen@htpc:~$ ps -ef | grep transmission
109       1023     1  1 21:46 ?        00:00:35 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

chen@htpc:~$ ps aux | grep transmission
109       1023  3.2  0.4  47684 16620 ?        Ssl  21:46   1:20     /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
chen      1852  0.0  0.0   4200   772 pts/0    S+   22:27   0:00 grep --color=auto transmission

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Best Answer

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

add chen to the debian-transmission group

sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission chen

change the folder ownership

sudo chgrp debian-transmission /home/chen/TV\ shows

grant write access to the group
```
sudo chmod 770 /home/chen/TV\ shows
```
Stop the deamon with
```
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
```
The last thing to do is change the file creation mask, so that the downloaded files would be writeable by chen.
```
sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
```
… and change "umask": 18 to "umask": 2. Hit Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to exit.

Start the daemon with

sudo service transmission-daemon start

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Try this:

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

Ubuntu – Transmission. Started with a “permission denied”, now it won’t even run

The last command in that set:

sudo chown your_user -R /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

sets your user as the owner of the settings file, and that file has read-permissions only for the owner by default. Transmission won't even be able to read it. Try:

sudo service transmission-daemon stop 
chmod g+rw /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json 
sudo service transmission-daemon start

Since the commands don't change the group ownership of that file, giving it group read/write permission should be enough to get Transmission to start.

There are other problems as well, so I suggest these modifications as well:

chmod g+rw /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/
chmod u+s /your_path/progress /your_path/completed

This will:

Give the daemon the necessary write permissions on /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/, where it stores the current status.
Ensure that files created in the download and temporary folders are owned by you, by making the folders setuid.

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