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How do you set a password for transmission-daemon, the BitTorrent client server?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026227558 views
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Problem

The config file is ambiguous, and keeps getting overwritten when you restart the daemon in Debian, anyway. In , there are these options: Every time I restart the daemon with: It overwrites , and the password it prints doesn't work anyway. Does anyone know how to set the password properly? I don't want to disable it.

Error Output

rpc-username
rpc-password
proxy-auth-username
proxy-auth-password

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Fix for: How do you set a password for transmission-daemon, the BitTorrent client server?

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Do these things in the exact order: Shutdown: Write the in the file, in double-quotes. Make sure is . Save that file Startup: Login to the page, it's at port 9091 Type in your password. The password that's being overwritten is a hash. The program is smarter than usual and detects that your password is not a hash, so it overwrites the password with the hash to be secure. So your password should work. However, remember that it writes the password it loaded with when it shuts down. So doing will n…

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