Hi all.

I have been trying out setting up FTP/SFTP servers; and have been able to test FTP.

However, since SFTP is secure, that would be a better option. Thus, I tried it, and "get" and "put" are working fine (in SFTP that is).

The only thing I am wanting to do is to disable "write" access (that is, no one should be able to do a upload on the SFTP server). I looked in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config", but found no such option.

As a side note, I remember commenting out "write_enable=YES" in "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf" while I was testing FTP. Doing this had prevented me from uploading files in FTP.

However, I fail to prevent "write" access in SFTP. :-|

Any ideas. I will be highly grateful.



Looking forward to a reply.

Regards,
Ajay

SFTP uses SSH for users to login, and lets users do file transfers with a user interface like the FTP client. But their access is like that of a shell account. To prevent a user from being able to write somewhere or to a file, use the very same permissions control that you would use if they were logged in to a shell account. The chmod command will be your best friend for this. Learn it well.

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Thanks Skaparen for the reply.

I tried doing
After this, when I log on, I am logged into "/" as the remote directory.



However, if I revert back by
and follow the exact the same login procedure, I get logged onto "/home/ftp_user" as the remote directory.



Is this (weird) behaviour expected??


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay