so if you want to set up btsync to run as a specific user do ths in /etc/default/btsync set : AUTOSTART="user" than create a file in /etc/btsync with the format /user.<username>.<group>.conf username and group can be the same before you start always do a chown -R /home/<username>/<sync folder> to the devs: this config is more then suboptimal and should be simplified