# HELP winscp Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission denied

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**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/help-winscp-permission-denied-error-code-3-error-message-from-server-permission-denied/16267 "2020-02-20T22:09:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![WD6AWP](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/wd6awp/32/5_2.png) [@WD6AWP](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/WD6AWP)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/help-winscp-permission-denied-error-code-3-error-message-from-server-permission-denied/16267/4 "2020-02-22T20:03:59Z")

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Sounds like WinSCP is connecting to the node fine. So you don’t have a port or password issue.

If you are logging in with username `repeater` you do not have permission to edit any files in /etc/asterisk. You need to login with username `root` but the root user is not allowed to ssh by default. It is possible to allow root ssh but I’m not sure how folks using WinSCP handle that.

Would any WinSCP users like to shed some light on this?

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