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FileZilla FATAL ERROR type 11 WPEngine fix
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The issue is, on Ubuntu, FileZilla is trying multiple ssh keys even when set to use username/pass for sftp connections. This causes WPEngine to drop the connection after the first one or two attempts with bad keys.

To fix this, we can set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK env variable before launching filezilla. This does require opening FileZilla from the cli, but we can make an alias for it.

In my .bashrc file, I add this alias at the end.

  • alias fz="SSH_AUTH_SOCK=null filezilla &"

Now the cli command fz will open FileZilla and work as expected.

Yoink: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=52987#p178270

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