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@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Full featured and highly configurable SFTP server
- Automatically terminating idle connections.
- Atomic uploads are configurable.
- Support for Git repository over SSH.
- SCP is supported.
- SCP and rsync are supported.
- Prometheus metrics are exposed.
- REST API for users and quota management and real time reports for the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.
- REST API for users management, backup, restore and real time reports of the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.
- Web based interface to easily manage users and connections.
- Easy migration from Unix system user accounts.
- Portable mode: a convenient way to share a single directory on demand.
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- `bind_address`, string. Leave blank to listen on all available network interfaces. Default: "127.0.0.1"
- `templates_path`, string. Path to the HTML web templates. This can be an absolute path or a path relative to the config dir
- `static_files_path`, string. Path to the static files for the web interface. This can be an absolute path or a path relative to the config dir
- `backups_path`, string. Path to the backup directory. This can be an absolute path or a path relative to the config dir
- `backups_path`, string. Path to the backup directory. This can be an absolute path or a path relative to the config dir. We don't allow backups in arbitrary paths for security reasons
Here is a full example showing the default config in JSON format:
@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ These properties are stored inside the data provider. If you want to use your ex
## REST API
SFTPGo exposes REST API to manage users and quota, to backup and restore users and to get real time reports for the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.
SFTPGo exposes REST API to manage users and quota, to backup and restore users and to get real time reports of the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.
If quota tracking is enabled in `sftpgo` configuration file, then the used size and number of files are updated each time a file is added/removed. If files are added/removed not using SFTP or if you change `track_quota` from `2` to `1`, you can rescan the user home dir and update the used quota using the REST API.
If quota tracking is enabled in `sftpgo` configuration file, then the used size and number of files are updated each time a file is added/removed. If files are added/removed not using SFTP/SCP or if you change `track_quota` from `2` to `1`, you can rescan the users home dir and update the used quota using the REST API.
REST API is designed to run on localhost or on a trusted network, if you need HTTPS and/or authentication you can setup a reverse proxy using an HTTP Server such as Apache or NGNIX.
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- Data provider availability
- Total successful and failed logins using a password or a public key
- Total HTTP requests served and totals for response code
- Go's runtime like details about GC, number of gouroutines and OS threads
- Go's runtime details about GC, number of gouroutines and OS threads
- Process information like CPU, memory, file descriptor usage and start time
Please check the `/metrics` page for more details.
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### Brute force protection
The **connection failed logs** can be used for better integration in tools such as [Fail2ban](http://www.fail2ban.org/). Example of [jails](./fail2ban/jails) and [filters](./fail2ban/filters) working with systemD/journalD are available in fail2ban directory.
The **connection failed logs** can be used for better integration in tools such as [Fail2ban](http://www.fail2ban.org/). Example of [jails](./fail2ban/jails) and [filters](./fail2ban/filters) working with `systemd`/`journald` are available in fail2ban directory.
## Acknowledgements