There is not much additional risk by doing this. This is needed in case of some
exceptional cases such as storage.validate_directory() which need to run as a
different user other than root.
Tests:
- Directory validation works in transmission and deluge.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>