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Synology: Commonly Used Commands

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Commonly used commands via ssh with Synology NAS.

Synology Cheat Sheet

sudo -i : Login as root
synoindex -R video : Reindex video files

User management

There is no passwd command, user synouser command instead.

Synology command: synouser

Create new user 'tuyen' with password '1' and permission to access FTP (0x01), Audio Station (0x04) and Surveillance Station (0x10)

admin@DiskStation:~$ sudo /usr/syno/sbin/synouser --add tuyen 1 "Tuyen Dang" 0 tuyen@company.com 21

Re-index files

Re-index video files to remove deleted videos from being listed in DS Video

admin@DiskStation:~$ synoindex -R video

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