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I have a general question about the UNIX world. I am currently running Ubuntu at home and installed transmission on a device and it runs as and saves files as transmission-debian user. I am wondering if it makes sense for me to change this to my own user so it easier to interact with files and I don't need to sudo? Why would this be a bad idea to do?
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I have a general question about the UNIX world. I am currently running Ubuntu at home and installed transmission on a device and it runs as and saves files as transmission-debian user. I am wondering if it makes sense for me to change this to my own user so it easier to interact with files and I don't need to sudo? Why would this be a bad idea to do?
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I have a general question about the UNIX world. I am currently running Ubuntu at home and installed transmission on a device and it runs as and saves files as transmission-debian user. I am wondering if it makes sense for me to change this to my own user so it easier to interact with files and I don't need to sudo? Why would this be a bad idea to do?
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ubuntu files users transmission
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The main reason for the recommendation of running Transmission as its own dedicated system user rather than your user is that, if the software has a vulnerability that allows exploits that will expose files outside of its configured directory, then it will not end up exposing the possibly sensitive files from your home directory, since Linux itself will prevent that kind of access through the basic permissions.
In order to make it easier to manage the files in Transmission's directory with your regular user, you should consider adding your user to the debian-transmission group, which is the group that owns the files in the Transmission directory, and has (or at least should have) read/write access to that directory and the files within it.
The Ubuntu howto suggests this command (slightly adapted to get your user from an environment variable):
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission "$USER"
Hopefully this will make it easier for you to manage the files downloaded with Transmission, while still keeping it running under its own dedicated system user, for better security.
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The main reason for the recommendation of running Transmission as its own dedicated system user rather than your user is that, if the software has a vulnerability that allows exploits that will expose files outside of its configured directory, then it will not end up exposing the possibly sensitive files from your home directory, since Linux itself will prevent that kind of access through the basic permissions.
In order to make it easier to manage the files in Transmission's directory with your regular user, you should consider adding your user to the debian-transmission group, which is the group that owns the files in the Transmission directory, and has (or at least should have) read/write access to that directory and the files within it.
The Ubuntu howto suggests this command (slightly adapted to get your user from an environment variable):
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission "$USER"
Hopefully this will make it easier for you to manage the files downloaded with Transmission, while still keeping it running under its own dedicated system user, for better security.
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The main reason for the recommendation of running Transmission as its own dedicated system user rather than your user is that, if the software has a vulnerability that allows exploits that will expose files outside of its configured directory, then it will not end up exposing the possibly sensitive files from your home directory, since Linux itself will prevent that kind of access through the basic permissions.
In order to make it easier to manage the files in Transmission's directory with your regular user, you should consider adding your user to the debian-transmission group, which is the group that owns the files in the Transmission directory, and has (or at least should have) read/write access to that directory and the files within it.
The Ubuntu howto suggests this command (slightly adapted to get your user from an environment variable):
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission "$USER"
Hopefully this will make it easier for you to manage the files downloaded with Transmission, while still keeping it running under its own dedicated system user, for better security.
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The main reason for the recommendation of running Transmission as its own dedicated system user rather than your user is that, if the software has a vulnerability that allows exploits that will expose files outside of its configured directory, then it will not end up exposing the possibly sensitive files from your home directory, since Linux itself will prevent that kind of access through the basic permissions.
In order to make it easier to manage the files in Transmission's directory with your regular user, you should consider adding your user to the debian-transmission group, which is the group that owns the files in the Transmission directory, and has (or at least should have) read/write access to that directory and the files within it.
The Ubuntu howto suggests this command (slightly adapted to get your user from an environment variable):
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission "$USER"
Hopefully this will make it easier for you to manage the files downloaded with Transmission, while still keeping it running under its own dedicated system user, for better security.
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The main reason for the recommendation of running Transmission as its own dedicated system user rather than your user is that, if the software has a vulnerability that allows exploits that will expose files outside of its configured directory, then it will not end up exposing the possibly sensitive files from your home directory, since Linux itself will prevent that kind of access through the basic permissions.
In order to make it easier to manage the files in Transmission's directory with your regular user, you should consider adding your user to the debian-transmission group, which is the group that owns the files in the Transmission directory, and has (or at least should have) read/write access to that directory and the files within it.
The Ubuntu howto suggests this command (slightly adapted to get your user from an environment variable):
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission "$USER"
Hopefully this will make it easier for you to manage the files downloaded with Transmission, while still keeping it running under its own dedicated system user, for better security.
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