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Create new SFTP user with limited access to the server's folders

Posted on February 6, 2014

I’d like to create SFTP users to let others access specific folders of my server. I’m running centOS.



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general guidelines–> <br> <br>1- create a group and grant permissions you want to this group. <br> <br>2- add users to that group you made. <br> <br>if each user will be given different permission, then it is always better to create multiple group with primary group so that the secondary can be controlled by the primary one. <br> <br>

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