Change credentials on transmission addon - OS6

EDIT:  Per AgentANGST-4043's second post, this procedure doesn't work.

 

I wanted to change the credentials on transmission, as the default credentials are admin // admin and It makes me feel a bit uneasy. This is running on my Readynas 102, on 6.9.3

1st stop the service:

/etc/init.d/transmission stop

(the service is called "transmission" and not "transmission-daemon" like most ones found out there in linuxland)

2nd - Find settings.json

root@my-nas:/# find . -name settings.json
./data/Transmission/config/settings.json

(found it !!)

3rd - edit the file, remove the hashed password and put in a new one in clear text

root@my-nas:/# nano /data/Transmission/config/settings.json

Then verify that it is changed and saved.

 

root@my-nas:/# cat /data/Transmission/config/settings.json | grep password
"rpc-password": "lalala",
-----
4th - Start trasmission again:

/etc/init.d/transmission start

That should do the trick

 

BONUS!!
If you want to use nano to edit the settings.json file you will have to install it first:
run these two commands:

apt-get update

apt-get install nano

 

Enjoy!