Deluge downloads file with wrong user permission umask

Hopefully I haven't made any mistakes. This will make any file or directory put under it be owned by that group and subdirectories will also have the stick bit set so any user of that group would be able to access the folders. That way, you can better manage who has access to your downloads. I've implemented the updated guide on my setup as well as couple friends' servers and all is working well. Thanks for the continued work on this issue. Would it be ok if I incorporate it into the User Guide?

Board index All times are UTC. The issue is that the original mounted drive was an NTFS formatted disk therefore the file permissions would default to root and in the absence of any umask. The solution if you are running deluged as service is to modify the umask setting in the service config e. Excerpt from deluge upstart guide :. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

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Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 11k times. The permissions of the parent folder are rwxrwxr-x. My goal here is to enable my users who are part of the deluge group, to be able to manage the downloads. Currently they are missing the write permission attribute on both the folders and files in order for this to happen.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. From what you describe, it sounds like the owner and group are root. If this is the case, it would seem that the deluge daemon is not running as the deluge user you created. One is to set the sticky-bit for the group on the directory the downloads are saved to. Another option is to change the gid for the deluge user to something sam has access to.