#2234 closed Enhancement (fixed)
add support for setting the file creation umask
| Reported by: | jordan83 | Owned by: | charles |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | 1.73 |
| Component: | libtransmission | Version: | 1.72 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Hi guys,
I'm using Transmission as a deamon in a home server running Ubuntu 9.04. The deamon runs under the ad-hoc user "debian-transmission" which was automatically created during the installation of the package.
I configured Transmission so that it saves the torrent files within a directory that I share within the home network using Samba. The problem is that the umask used to save the files is 022 thus I cannot delete the files through Samba, because only the owner (debian-transmission) is allowed to do that.
It would be nice if you could add an option in Transmission to allow the user to choose the umask that should be used for the torrent files when they are created.
I'm wondering what could be the best solution to work around the problem. I could either run a crontab script to change the permissions from time to time or I could create a home directory for the debian-transmission user and set the 000 umask. However, both of the solutions are not very elegant, thus if you could add this (I guess and hope :) ) minor feature it would be a great enhancement to transmission-daemon users like me! :)
Keep up the good work and thanks for what you've done so far!
Giordano
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by charles
- Milestone changed from None Set to 1.80
- Owner set to charles
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by charles
- Milestone changed from 1.80 to 1.73
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by charles
- Summary changed from Permissions of the downloaded files to add support for setting the file creation umask
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by charles
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by charles
- Component changed from Daemon to libtransmission
comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by charles
Added to trunk in r8872 for 1.73
comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by charles
that should read r8772 :)
This is a really useful addition for daemon users, and only a few lines of code to add support for it in settings.json, so I'm going to bump it to 1.73.