hi, i wrote in english because my french is very bad (even worse than my english :-)). at least i figured out, that i had the same problem as described above.
> # /usr/sbin/vsftpd > 500 OOPS: SSL: cannot load RSA key until one minute ago, when i found the following command on a polish webpage: openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out vsftpd.pem -keyout vsftpd.pem if i create my key with this command, i get no error messages anymore and vsftpd works. the only difference (as far as i figure) to the way i created my key before, is that this command creates only a 1024-key. so i guess vsftpd can only handle keys of this size. ---- but it's only a guess :-) greetings, eric