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sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserverįind this line that tells the init.d script which user to run Plex as PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=plexĬhange plex to your regular user e.g.

You can change the user Plex Media Server runs as to fix the permission issues you get from CouchPotato, SickRage, Sonarr, Headphones and others. Then set the permissions of your media folders to 775 so your group (and the plex user member of that group) can execute files sudo chmod -R 775 /path/to/media Option 2 To change permissions of your media folders, first add the plex user to your main user's group sudo usermod -aG htpcguides plex If Plex isn't showing your folder so you can add you videos then this will fix it.

If you are getting permission issues it is because Plex runs as its own user, there are two options: change permissions of the downloads folders or change the user Plex runs as – you can do both but option 1 should suffice.

Plex Media Server will autostart on boot 🙂 Fix Plex Permission Issues Install the Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 16.x and later sudo apt install plexmediaserver -y public main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt//plex.list key file from here and replace it in the wget line wget -O - | sudo apt-key add -Įcho 'deb. If you get the key is not found error then it may have changed name, find the. Install Plex Media Server Ubuntu 16.x and LaterĪdd the Plex repository GPG key and add Plex the plex repository, you can copy and paste the whole block into your SSH session

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