SFTP error : No supported authentication methods available

[Alec:D]

Sometime while accessing server via SFTP it gives error and normal FTP connect well.

in such cases if you check secure logs :

[root@server]# tail -f /var/log/secure
July 02 10:33:25 server sshd[15388]: Received disconnect from XX.XX.XX.XX: 14: No supported authentication methods available

This issue is occurs cause, PasswordAuthentication is disabled in the SSH configuration

PasswordAuthentication on

Enabled it and make it "on"

Once it done, restart the sshd service.

root@server [~]# /etc/init.d/sshd restart
Now try to connect to your server with SFTP, it should resolved your issue

Done..