For changing user that plex runs as, everything points to “nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver” but this isnt on my debian 10 install. Seems I cant edit the sysctl config alone, as it wont start. Any intel on location would be great!
The service override file should be created in:
/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.server.d/
And it should be named override.conf. There’s more information (and a specific example for changing users) in this post:
I’d recommend reading through the other steps, but using step E as the means for creating and editing the override.conf file:
sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver (make sure to stop the service first).
I did that but then plex doesn’t launch at all, I thought I would have to alter the other file but guess something else is going on then. Nothing gets logged when I tried so I’ll dig around.
If you’re changing the UID/GID which Plex runs as, don’t forget to change the ownership of all the files and directories to that new UID/GID to match BEFORE launching.
This was it, i totally forgot the /var/lib… man, n00bsauce moves. ;p
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Glad you got it 
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