Debian BTsync daemon permissions

[niekwoo10]

I'm running a daemon on my server as root. How do I change the default permissions of new files to 766?

[tuxpoldo]

DAEMON_UMASK=0011

More Info in the initial posting

[niekwoo10]

DAEMON_UMASK=0011

More Info in the initial posting

Okay, here's the beginning of my config file:

//!/root/.btsync/btsync --config////DAEMON_UID=www-data//DAEMON_UMASK=0011{  "device_name": "Cubian",  "listening_port" : 53,                       // 0 - randomize port/* storage_path dir contains auxilliary app files   if no storage_path field: .sync dir created in the directory   where binary is located.   otherwise user-defined directory will be used*///  "storage_path" : "/home/user/.sync",// uncomment next line if you want to set location of pid file// "pid_file" : "/var/run/btsync/btsync.pid",

For some reason it doesn't work. I think it's because the line is commented, but when I remove the comment I get an error.

[tuxpoldo]

It must be commented. Read the initial posting.

 

And it works. But there are some limitations:

 

1. Files that are already present, will not be changed. You have to to change the old files manually. Only newly created files will be created based on the new UMASK
2. The UMASK is only a mask (and not a mode). The default UMASK is typically 0022 - that means that all objects created with 666 will become 644 and all objects created with 777 will become 755. By default applications create files with 666 and directories with 777. This results by default in directories with 755 and files with 644. By setting the UMASK to 0011 you will get directories with 766 and files with 666

[niekwoo10]

I have tried in numerous ways, but 

ps aux | grep btsync

still shows it running as root.

[tuxpoldo]

Your question was "How do I change the default permissions of new files to 766?" - not "How do I change the user under which credentials the daemon runs?"

 

But I will give you good news: you will also find the answer to that question in the initial posting. Using DAEMON_UID=<username> was the right way to do it.

 

One tip: you can find out more in the system log and also when starting manually the daemon with service btsync restart, if you uncomment the last line (the one with DAEMON_INIT_DEBUG) in the file /etc/default/btsync

[niekwoo10]

Thank you. When I started the topic I didn't follow your guide. I've reinstalled it and it's finally working