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Hello, how can I log in the daemon as a different user?

A little background..

I have a ubuntu server that hosts my torrents and have been using qBittorrent for a long time now but I have had a support issue for 2 weeks now unanswered so I figured I would change.

Doing some reasearch I seen Deluge as a good one and I setup the server from HERE with webui and that had been working great.

I then wanted to use the plugins but some are not compatible with the webui so I looked upon installing the thin client on my ubuntu laptop.

I found THIS guide but found it very patchy and struggled with it so then I found THIS guide and between the lot I seemed to have webui working and also the thin client with remote access.

It appeared to be running of my main ubuntu user but when I rebooted the server the daemon seemed to log in to the deluge user and I cannot login to webui or the thin client.

I might be way off the mark with what I think is going on if I am please tell me.

####UPDATE####

It seems that every time I reboot the server the settings do not stay. I managed to log in by killing all processes and then runnung
then when I get a new line I ran When I then logged on the password was back to default so I was prompted to change that and then all my settings previously like proxy etc we're all blank but I did have one test torrent in there from before I rebooted last.

Can anyone shed some light?

Kind regards

Can you be clearer about the issues you are trying to resolve.

If the settings have been reset, it is likely a permission issue for the config location. Enable logging to check for errors.

Cas wrote:Can you be clearer about the issues you are trying to resolve.

If the settings have been reset, it is likely a permission issue for the config location. Enable logging to check for errors.

Thank you for your reply, I have been doing some more tests and this is what the issue is in more detail.

I have found that the settings are fine

What seems to be happening simply is every reboot the daemon logs in to the "deluge" system user

What I want is for the daemon to log in to my Ubuntu user.

To accomplish this after a reboot I have to run these commands
I then finally run And I have all my torrents back and connected properly

I assume that this is a simple fix and I am missing the obvious I am pretty sure this is user error and not software error.

Thanks again for the reply, hope this is now clearer

Kind regards

So you are using systemd services but don't want to run as root or deluge but your own logged in user? Edit the /etc/systemd/system/deluged.service and /etc/systemd/system/deluge-web.service to replace the user/group with your own.

As easy as that, thank you very much