[Debian And Ubuntu Server Unofficial Packages For Bittorrent Sync]

There are settings for both of these: during the first installation, debconf asks for the most important settings needed to install the daemon. If you perform a service reconfiguration, debconf asks for all available settings. If you perform a reconfiguration with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure btsync

you will be asked for the credentials and there you can specify both a user and a group of your choice for the btsync daemon. Additionally you will be asked also for a UMASK for the daemon. This setting determines with which mask files are created and written. In order to make all files and directories group writable, you have to specify 0002

 

One question: are you sure, that the server packages are the rights ones for your use case? If your Linux machines are used as regular desktop machines with a user that interactively logs in and wants to synchronise directories owned by himself, maybe the packages for desktop usage btsync-user may be more suitable for you. 

 

1. Thanks for the info!

 

2. As to server vs user. I did try using the user install at some time past (it was quite a while back) and I had issues getting it to work. I just never tried it again. TBH, I could have even botched the installation so who knows.

[Debian And Ubuntu Server Unofficial Packages For Bittorrent Sync]

I have issues when bittorrent sync syncs from one machine to the next. It changes permissions so that I can't save anything and I have to go in and manually change the permissions back. I'm sure this is in a config somewhere.

 

I'd like to change two things about this. I'd like to change the user to a different user (not user name for the login, but the user who owns the folders) the user is currently set to btsync. I'd also like to change the group permission. The group permission is currently set to Group can Read and I'd like to change to Group can Read/Write.

 

Where do I need to look for the config and what settings would that be?

 

Thanks!