It appears that the passwords that needed to match were the ones located in each auth file. The auth file in ~/.config/deluge/ was generated by deluge-gtk, and the one in /srv/deluge/.config/deluge/ was generated by the systemd service. Once the systemd auth password was changed to the same as the deluge-gtk one, the daemon connected. This did
not work vice versa. I also added my user to the "deluge" group with
I logged back in to make this change. Initially, the deluge-gtk showed "ERROR" where my ssd's storage was normally outputted, but when I added a torrent, it started downloading and showed the correct space. This error returned when I tried to change the download directory from "/srv/deluge/.config/deluge/Downloads." I'm not sure if there's a way to change this without error, but since everything else is working, I'll leave it be. I
was able to change the directory that completed files are moved to. If anyone knows what the reason for that might be please feel free to reach out.