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Administration Tasks
WinSCP allows system administrators to restrict or enforce certain functionality of the application.
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Configuring the Restrictions
System administrator can configure following:
- Restrict password storing.
- Restrict remote file opening/editing.
- Restrict connection to servers without having their host keys accepted in advance.
- Force authentication banners being shown.
These restrictions are configured via “local machine” registry root key (modifiable only by system administrators). Example of corresponding registry export follows:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Martin Prikryl\WinSCP 2] "DisableOpenEdit"=dword:00000001 "DisablePasswordStoring"=dword:00000001 "DisableAcceptingHostKeys"=dword:00000001 "ForceBanners"=dword:00000001
Unmodifiable Stored Session
Administrator can set session setting Special to 1 to restrict user from modifying or deleting the session accidentally (Note that the setting can be changed by end-user). Such session will also be highlighted in session list. Example how to configure the setting, if INI file is used as configuration storage, follows:
[Sessions\Server] HostName=example.com UserName=customer Special=1
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