Unable to connect to the Plesk server via SFTP: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server

Mikhail Shport

Updated November 13, 2023 18:49

Plesk for Linux kb: technical

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Unable to connect to SFTP. The following error is shown in an FTP client:

CONFIG_TEXT: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server

Incorrect value of the Subsystem parameter in the SSH configuration:

# grep Subsystem /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

Connect to the server via SSH
Replace the necessary value:

# for i in $(grep Subsystem /etc/ssh/sshd_config | awk '{print $3}'); do sed -i 's|'"$i"'|internal-sftp|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config; done
Reload the SSHD service:

# service sshd reload