I had this and i commented out and wrote the line you gave but no fix. filezilla still cannot connect.

Subsystem   sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server

Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

Thanks! this helped.

Good call. Not sure why this works for FileZilla but it does. Also, you don’t need to power cycle your server, just service sshd restart works fine.

As a note: You may need to change/add the ForceCommand in the user/group match block to use internal-sftp as well:

Match User someuser
    ..... other stuff .....
    ForceCommand internal-sftp

This did not work for me. Instead, it caused the server to reject any remote access. I had to access it through the console. Instead of this, one can temporarily change the permissions or ownership for whatever file/directory is needed.

System: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Thanks harshagadiraju - ya just saved me a whole lotta messin’ around!

For the record folks, try this first before you do anything!

Simple this resolved the problem.

This helped me, all I had to do was log in and change the password, then sftp worked as expected.

This saved me a lot of time, thanks

This solved the problem. Thanks.

Yes! You are right. Thank you so much
I changed default password of the root user, the fizilla worked well

Thank’s WinSCP connect’s to it. But Filezilla doesn’t and i checked the the settings and I couldn’t see anything weird.

This worked for me to restore SFTP access after a cpanel update. Very fast and simple solution. Thanks!