Permissions

File Access Manager connects to the Linux server using SFTP and SSH.

A user with elevated permissions is required in order to read directories with restricted permissions. We recommend granting the required permissions as described in Granting Read Permissions. This method grants File Access Manager the minimal required permissions to read any file or directory. Alternatively, it is possible to skip Granting Read Permissions and allow File Access Manager to use root instead.

Using a user other than root and not granting the permission as described in Recommended: Granting Read Permissions is not recommended. The fetched information will be limited to the permissions that the given user possesses. For instance, if the given user is not allowed to read the permissions of a directory, then the information of that directory will not be collected.