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Change Plex user to fix permission issues.

By October 2, 2017January 7th, 2024Personal

By default plex run as user “plex”, If plex user doesn’t have proper permissions for media directory Plex and / or some channels like “Sub-Zero Subtitles” may not work properly.

 

 

To change the user for Plex with Systemd ( Ubuntu , Centos , Arch linux etc.) follow below steps.

 

  • service plexmediaserver stop
  • chown -R myuser:myuser /var/lib/plexmediaserver
  • Edit:  /usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service
  • Change

User = YourUSer

Group = YourUser

  • systemctl daemon-reload
  • service plexmediaserver stop

 

 

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