Administration Tasks

System administrator can configure the following:

• Restrict password storing.
• Restrict 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:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Martin Prikryl\WinSCP 2]
"DisableOpenEdit"=dword:00000001
"DisablePasswordStoring"=dword:00000001
"DisableAcceptingHostKeys"=dword:00000001
"ForceBanners"=dword:00000001

On 64-bit systems, a physical location of the key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Martin Prikryl\WinSCP 2 (as WinSCP is 32-bit application).

Administrator can set site setting allow any user to modify or delete the site accidentally (Note that the setting can be changed by end-user). Such site will also be highlighted in. Example how to configure the setting, if INI file is used as configuration storage follows:

[Sessions\Server]
HostName=example.comm
UserName=customer

WinSCP can be distributed with the restrictions preconfigured.