Bug#612037: Proftpd fails to start if gadmin-proftpd is used to generate configuration file

[Anthony <salinelinux@gmail.com>]

Package: gadmin-proftpd
Version: 1:0.4.0-1
Severity: important

More specifically the proftp daemon will die and refuse to restart if you add a
user to the FTP server. Proftpd will fail with the following output whether
started manually from terminal or through gadmin-proftpd.
 - Fatal: TLSRSACertificateFile: '/etc/gadmin-proftpd/certs/cert.pem' does not
exist on line 65 of '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf'

I have worked around this issue by doing the following:

gksu mousepad /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
And, removed these entries:
TLSRSACertificateFile /etc/gadmin-proftpd/certs/cert.pem
TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /etc/gadmin-proftpd/certs/key.pem
TLSCACertificateFile /etc/gadmin-proftpd/certs/cacert.pem

This fix works (The server is running and I can access from non local machines)
but I am unsure if it is wise.

A quick search shows that /etc/gadmin-proftpd does not contain a folder named
/certs and the files cert.pem, key.pem and cacert.pem do not exist anywhere on
the system.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gadmin-proftpd depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.30.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.10-6   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                  2.4.2-2.1  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.2-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.3-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  menu                          2.1.44     generates programs menu for all me
ii  proftpd-basic                 1.3.3a-6   Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP dae

gadmin-proftpd recommends no packages.

gadmin-proftpd suggests no packages.

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