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Old 09-08-2009, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by nitaish View Post
I tried to connect to a website using SFTP and was able to do so. However, I can go several levels up the server and can access other directories too except the other websites' directories in the /home directory. This is actually risky as a person can also delete data from the other directories and cause instability to the system. Is there a work around for this?
With the way *nix file system permissions work, being able to see a file exists is not the same as being able to view, modify or delete a file.
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