2.4 Permissions on sync_folder changed to user/user

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#1

Last one for today. Somewhere after updating to 2.4 and/or disabling the cron stuff (removepackage-cron) my sync_folder is now owned by my main user, not btsync as it was previously.

I noticed this when I looked at btsync and saw it could not write to any folders. I found some help online, by doing this:

sudo setfacl -R -m “u:btsync:rwx” /home/your_username/btsync_share

This resolved it for me (though did not change the way its listed via ls -l).

Add this into your list, but it might be me, etc. I did do a handful of reboots of the server today for other things, but nothing involving permissions/etc (though I think the updater does?)

#2

The preferred way to do this is as follows:

  cd /home/_USERNAME_
  sudo chown -R _USERNAME_:btsync /home/_USERNAME_/sync_folder
  sudo chmod 2775 /home/_USERNAME_/sync_folder
  sudo usermod -a -G btsync _USERNAME_

However, if that worked for you then that’s fantastic!