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I am trying to set up an SFTP connection to my Forge provisioned server hosted with Linode. I have added the SSH key and I am able to connect with my FTP Client in SFTP mode. When I try to connect, my FTP client shows that I am connected but failing to authenticate and prompts me for the username and password.
I am using "forge" as the username and the Sudo Password I was issued when provisioning the server as the password.
It turns out Forge has disabled password logins and my FTP client is in such a way that I cannot login without a password even tough I have provided SSH credentials. I have therefore switched to Filezilla from FireFTP. Filezilla allows me to provide file authentication with just a username, "forge".
Problem solved
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