How to Change Default SFTP location in Open SSSH windows

[karthick1409]

i have installed "OpenSSH for Windows" version for configuring SFTP in windows server 2012. i can able to connect using sftp connection. But by default i am getting user home directory like c:\user\username. But i need one common directory as default location.

[bagajjal]

In unix world this is accomplished with the "ChrootDirectory". ChrootDirectory is not yet supported in windows...

Its a duplicate of
#539

[karthick1409]

Is there any other way to achieve this

[bagajjal]

As far as I know, we don't have..

[gregmich29]

You can try to edit sshd_config, then locate the line where sftp-server is call and add command line argument to the exe --> sftp-server.exe -C C:\MyDirectory
It works fine for me.

[karthick1409]

Hi, Thanks for the reply I have added the argument like below in sshd.conf file but it is not working. let me know if i miss anything. sftp sftp_server.exe -C C:\Myftp

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[robatilho]

@karthick1409 you can try sftp sftp-server.exe -d C:\FTP\

[rxarun]

@karthick1409 you can try sftp sftp-server.exe -d C:\FTP\

I have also found this to be working

[vaibhavkadam1987]

How to chnage the long path(having space in path).i.e D:\FTP Sites\SFTP

[vaibhavkadam1987]

Any help

[rxarun]

Did you try using double quotes?

[manojampalam]

see #784

the last response has a workaround for your problem.

[arreisGit]

Reading the sftp-server man , and just like it was already mentioned -d should work.

"-d start_directory
specifies an alternate starting directory for users. The pathname may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime: %% is replaced by a literal '%', %d is replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated, and %u is replaced by the username of that user. The default is to use the user's home directory. This option is useful in conjunction with the sshd_config(5) ChrootDirectory option." -- https://www.mankier.com/8/sftp-server

This worked for me:

sftp sftp-server.exe -d "D:\someFolder\anotherFolder"

[yousiftech]

Dear all,

I have seam issue when I log in on OpenSSH server I can see all root directory, kindly I need to make specific root for this server

[lukaszbachman]

For all users who had a problem with this solution not working, please note that you may need to edit this file:

C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config

Previously I was making changes to configuration stored in Program Files which was wrong and as a result it didn't make a difference. Changing this file worked for me.

[femston]

Somebody assist me. I have tried all the solutions provided on this trend. my question is should i remove the Subsystem

here is my config :

override default of no subsystems

Subsystem sftp sftp-server.exe -d "C:\SFTPRecording"

Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis

#Match User anoncvs

AllowTcpForwarding no

PermitTTY no

ForceCommand cvs server

ForceCommand internal-sftp

Match User RecUser1
ChrootDirectory "C:\SFTPRecording"

Match Group administrators
AuthorizedKeysFile PROGRAMDATA/ssh/administrators_authorized_keys

[femston]

Reading the sftp-server man , and just like it was already mentioned -d should work.

"-d start_directory
specifies an alternate starting directory for users. The pathname may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime: %% is replaced by a literal '%', %d is replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated, and %u is replaced by the username of that user. The default is to use the user's home directory. This option is useful in conjunction with the sshd_config(5) ChrootDirectory option." -- https://www.mankier.com/8/sftp-server

This worked for me:

sftp sftp-server.exe -d "D:\someFolder\anotherFolder"

@arreisGit
on my config file in openssh version 8.6.0 , i can see Subsystem sftp sftp-server.exe
is this the right one

[wan-liyang]

Somebody assist me. I have tried all the solutions provided on this trend. my question is should i remove the Subsystem

here is my config :

override default of no subsystems

Subsystem sftp sftp-server.exe -d "C:\SFTPRecording"

Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis

#Match User anoncvs

AllowTcpForwarding no

PermitTTY no

ForceCommand cvs server

ForceCommand internal-sftp

Match User RecUser1 ChrootDirectory "C:\SFTPRecording"

Match Group administrators AuthorizedKeysFile PROGRAMDATA/ssh/administrators_authorized_keys

added below into C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config work for me, the only thing is need restart service "OpenSSH SSH Server"

Match User sftpuser
ChrootDirectory "C:\SFTP\sftpuser"

[jacquesrici]

On Windows work for me like this:

Subsystem sftp sftp-server.exe -d /C:/SFTPRecording

[narjonas]

I only changed the C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config file:

Changing the line: ChrootDirectory "C:\Mydirectory"

and restarting the service in PowerShell with "Restart-Service sshd"

Worked perfectly.