Lightsail Wordpress plugin update attempt producing this... "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed."

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Our Lightsail Wordpress multisite install has been working well. I am attempting to update needed plugins and received this message: "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed." needed FTP creds

I'm using a keyfile for our SFTP, and our normal user/password produced this error: Failed to connect to FTP Server www.quietlyworking.org:21

Looking forward to your help getting these updated, Thank you!

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As you can see here, there may be a problem with access permissions.
Make sure your Lightsail web server user has write access to the WordPress directory.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/to-perform-the-requested-action-wordpress-needs-to-access-your-web-server-2/

Also check if the following settings are done in "wp-config.php".

define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
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