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| Possible reasons you might be experiencing troubles with permissions: | Possible reasons you might be experiencing troubles with permissions: | ||
| - | * Chroot/jail: Some software that chroots/jails sessions affect console sessions only, as they operate on shell-level. When using SFTP/FTP, shell is not used at all, so SFTP/FTP sessions break the chroot/jail. An opposite may be true as well. So when you are able to chroot/jail sessions on some access points (shell, FTP or SFTP) only, you need to make sure other access points are closed, otherwise any user is able to circumvent your restrictions by using them. | + | * Chroot/jail: Some software that chroots/jails sessions affect console sessions only, as they operate on shell-level. When using [[SFTP]]/[[FTP]], shell is not used at all, so SFTP/FTP sessions break the chroot/jail. An opposite may be true as well. So when you are able to chroot/jail sessions on some access points (shell, FTP or SFTP) only, you need to make sure other access points are closed, otherwise any user is able to circumvent your restrictions by using them. |
| * Cygwin: Cygwin software emulates Unix environment on Windows. As part of that it pretends that the files and directories have Unix style permissions. However it may not necessarily map these permissions correctly to the permissions of the underlying file system. | * Cygwin: Cygwin software emulates Unix environment on Windows. As part of that it pretends that the files and directories have Unix style permissions. However it may not necessarily map these permissions correctly to the permissions of the underlying file system. | ||