qBitTorrent automatic update port

[madeofstown]

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[FingerlessGlov3s]

I have a similar script to update transmissions peer port, which runs on the client running Transmission. I personally don't want the script on OPNsense doing it.

I have thought about creating a helper-scripts folder, then have some scripts for qbittorrent, transmissions, etc. Which you run on the devices running the torrent client, which use the https://opnsense.lan/wg0_port.txt to get the current port. It's also more secure doing it this way, as you don't then store more credentials in plain text on your router, and you can leave qbittorrent listening on localhost. The opnsense script won't start erroring if it can't reach qbittorrent for some reason.

This is my transmissions script, it checks if the port is open and then attempts updating if its not. Then you run this every, 5-10 minutes.
https://gist.github.com/FingerlessGlov3s/b5bd192d6503738ed1f51b30adf15a3f

[madeofstown]

I prefer having all my port changes/updates happening in a single script and I don't really see it as any more of a security issue if HTTPS is used. If OPNsense is good enough to store your PIA credentials in plaintext it should certainly be good enough to store your BitTorrent clients credentials that way.