{"id":425,"date":"2016-04-06T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T14:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/wordpress\/?p=425"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:04:41","slug":"proftpd-server-wont-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/proftpd-server-wont-start\/","title":{"rendered":"ProFTPD Server wont start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Failed to start FTP server :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Job for proftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See &#8220;systemctl status proftpd.service&#8221; and &#8220;journalctl -xe&#8221; for details.<\/p>\n<p>The journalctl -xe shows some usefull info:<\/p>\n<p>proftpd: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fatal: SFTPHostKey: Unable to use &#8216;\/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_rsa_key&#8217; as host key<\/span>, as it is group- or world-accessible on line 436 of &#8216;\/etc\/proftpd.conf&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Locate the .conf file:<\/p>\n<p>\/etc\/proftpd.conf<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the end of the .conf file comment the lines&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p># SFTPHostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_rsa_key<br \/>\n# SFTPHostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_dsa_key<\/p>\n<p>Start ProFTPD Server<\/p>\n<p><em>et voil\u00e0!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed to start FTP server : Job for proftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See &#8220;systemctl status proftpd.service&#8221; and &#8220;journalctl -xe&#8221; for details. The journalctl -xe shows some usefull info: proftpd: fatal: SFTPHostKey: Unable to use &#8216;\/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_rsa_key&#8217; as host key, as it is group- or world-accessible on line 436 of &#8216;\/etc\/proftpd.conf&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/proftpd-server-wont-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ProFTPD Server wont start?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"ProFTPD Server wont start? - HP Server","description":"Failed to start FTP server : Job for proftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status proftpd.service\" and \"jour"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}