transmission daemon : overwriting permissions on config directory contents

> transmission 4.0.5-1 > Arch 6.8.5-arch1-1 I want to edit /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-remote/settings.json. Permissions on that file are 600 for transmission:transmission My user is in the transmission group so I run chmod 660 settings.json and make my changes I could make the changes as root but I prefer this approach. However Transmission resets permission on every stop/start so I have to do this every time I want to make a change to the file. I must be doing it wrong. What is the preferred approach here?