Prevent Settings from being Overwritten

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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Server Version#: 4.144.1

Hello everyone.

I have a (hopefully quick) question. I’m running Plex off an Orange Pi 5 running Ubuntu, and this set up has been working well for at least 2 years now. But I have recently noticed that my settings in the Admin Panel get overwritten when either Plex updates or I reboot the system (I’m not entirely sure what causes it). The biggest issue is the the port forward setting. I have it set to port forward 20000 > 32400 to enable remote access… and that works great for a while, I can access and play content from anywhere. But without fail the “Enable remote access” setting gets toggled back off and the port forward gets reset to 32400 in Plex.

Common sense tells me I should be able to log on to the local machine and “chattr +i <some_file>” to prevent it from ever being overwritten again - but does anyone know which file?

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Its in Preferences.xml, but even if the file is owned by root with zero permissions it gets overwritten somehow.

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Thanks! I’m gonna try it cause I dont have any other ideas. But I hear you. I’l report back if I come up with anything else.

**Edit: doesn’t look like that’s it. it doesn’s seem to include Network configs.

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You should not be running as root (ID 0) which is fully privileged and obeys no restrictions.

Even if you issue chattr or chmod or setfacl or chown– it will not matter.
User ‘root’ (it is THE super user), can do whatever it wants.

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