added support for uid/gid ... by default transmission will still run as root so as to not break backwards compatibility.

transmission/environment-variables.tmpl

@@ -73,4 +73,7 @@ export TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR={{ .Env.TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR }}
 export TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR_ENABLED={{ .Env.TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR_ENABLED }}
 
 # Transmission needs to know which VPN provider is used
-export OPENVPN_PROVIDER={{ .Env.OPENVPN_PROVIDER }}
+export OPENVPN_PROVIDER={{ .Env.OPENVPN_PROVIDER }}
+
+export PUID={{ .Env.PUID }}
+export PGID={{ .Env.PGID }}

transmission/start.sh

@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ if [ ! -e "/dev/random" ]; then
   ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
 fi
 
+. /etc/transmission/userSetup.sh
+
 echo "STARTING TRANSMISSION"
-exec /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -g ${TRANSMISSION_HOME} --logfile ${TRANSMISSION_HOME}/transmission.log &
+exec sudo -u ${RUN_AS} /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -g ${TRANSMISSION_HOME} --logfile ${TRANSMISSION_HOME}/transmission.log &
 
 if [ "$OPENVPN_PROVIDER" = "PIA" ]
 then

transmission/userSetup.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# More/less taken from https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-baseimage-alpine/blob/3eb7146a55b7bff547905e0d3f71a26036448ae6/root/etc/cont-init.d/10-adduser
+
+RUN_AS=root
+
+if [ -n "$PUID" ] && [ ! "$(id -u root)" -eq "$PUID" ]; then
+    RUN_AS=abc
+    if [ ! "$(id -u ${RUN_AS})" -eq "$PUID" ]; then usermod -o -u "$PUID" ${RUN_AS} ; fi
+    if [ ! "$(id -g ${RUN_AS})" -eq "$PGID" ]; then groupmod -o -g "$PGID" ${RUN_AS} ; fi
+
+    echo "Setting owner for transmission paths to ${PUID}:${PGID}"
+    chown -R ${RUN_AS}:${RUN_AS} ${TRANSMISSION_HOME}
+    chown ${RUN_AS}:${RUN_AS} \
+        /config \
+        ${TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR} \
+        ${TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR} \
+        ${TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR}
+fi
+
+echo "
+-------------------------------------
+Transmission will run as
+-------------------------------------
+User name:   ${RUN_AS}
+User uid:    $(id -u ${RUN_AS})
+User gid:    $(id -g ${RUN_AS})
+-------------------------------------
+"
+
+export PUID
+export PGID
+export RUN_AS