SFTP Authentication Failed, Need to retrieve password

[fearworks]

Thank you for your reply and help, i did installed the WinSCP still i found the same issue and i am not able to login into the server, i have also read some documentation over proftpd website and found out that in the proftpd.conf file, we have an option to able or disable the root logins, should this be the problem that i am facing? Should i change this value?

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For those who care and might help others, just change the root main password and you are done with it, also, install WinSCP, configure your time-out settings and you are done with this issue, i hope i could contribute also to others to find a solution, special thanks to TGates and Keith aka fearworks

Yes I was using my root user password, not the MYSQL root password. I am able to log in using FileZilla SFTP without doing anything else. I am doing this on my private LAN and SSH is blocked to the outside world so I am not concerned with security for this basic setup I was testing. I guess the rest of the suggestion were pertinent to the security aspect?

Keith