I noticed Debian does this by default and Arch wiki recommends is citing improved security and upstream.

I don’t get why that’s more secure. Is this assuming torrents might be infected and aims to limit what a virus may access to the dedicated user’s home directory (/var/lib/transmission-daemon on Debian)?

  • mik
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    13 hours ago

    Unfortunately, newbies often aren’t taught how to properly handle permission and capability issues, so the sledgehammer solution is running it as root. Just like chmod 777 is the sledge for file permissions problems…