# Forge - Sites/User-Isolation

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- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Sudo access](#sudo-access)
- [Connecting via SFTP](#connecting-via-sftp)
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Fetch the complete documentation index at: <https://forge.laravel.com/docs/llms.txt>
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
## [​](#introduction) Introduction
By default, Laravel Forge uses the default `forge` user that is created as part of the server’s initial provisioning process for all deployments, daemons, scheduled jobs, PHP-FPM, and other processes.
Via Laravel Forge’s “User Isolation” feature, Forge will create a separate user for a given site. This is particularly useful when combined with a project like WordPress in order to prevent plugins from maliciously accessing content in your `forge` user (or other isolated user) owned directories.
The `forge` user is considered a “super user” and is therefore able to read all files within isolated user directories.
## [​](#sudo-access) Sudo access
Like the `forge` user, newly created isolated users also have limited sudo access. They may reload the PHP-FPM services requiring a password:
```
sudo -S service php8.5-fpm reload
```
If you need further sudo access, you should log in as the `forge` user and switch to the `root` user using the `sudo su` or the `sudo -i` command.
## [​](#connecting-via-sftp) Connecting via SFTP
You can connect to your server via SFTP as the isolated user. We recommend using an SFTP client such as [Transmit](https://panic.com/transmit/) or [Filezilla](https://filezilla-project.org/). However, before getting started, you should first [upload your SSH key to the server](/docs/ssh) for the isolated user.
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