I threw that configuration you posted on a working vsftpd (working without SSL) on CentOS 5 and can only confirm that it doesn't work. One obvious problem is port 990 as ftps wants to connect via port 990. In Filezilla you can choose to use FTPES which seems to connect to port 21 and force an SSL auth. This actually works as you get the certificate displayed to accept it and you can login. However, the directory listing fails. I tried changing to active, disallowing certain protocols etc. It all fails at the same stage. The link posted (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3094) seems to apply exactly to this situation. So, you simply will not be able to work with a newer Filezilla client against a vsftpd server without this patch. Status: Connecting to 192.168.1.232:21... Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message... Response: 220 FTP Command: AUTH TLS Response: 234 Proceed with negotiation. Status: Initializing TLS... Status: Verifying certificate... Command: USER kai Status: TLS/SSL connection established. Response: 331 Please specify the password. Command: PASS ******** Response: 230 Login successful. Command: SYST Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8 Command: FEAT Response: 211-Features: Response: AUTH SSL Response: AUTH TLS Response: EPRT Response: EPSV Response: MDTM Response: PASV Response: PBSZ Response: PROT Response: REST STREAM Response: SIZE Response: TVFS Response: 211 End Command: PBSZ 0 Response: 200 PBSZ set to 0. Command: PROT P Response: 200 PROT now Private. Status: Connected Status: Retrieving directory listing... Command: PWD Response: 257 "/" Command: TYPE I Response: 200 Switching to Binary mode. Command: PASV Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,232,75,253) Command: LIST Response: 150 Here comes the directory listing. Status: Server did not properly shut down TLS connection Error: Transfer connection interrupted: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted Response: 226 Directory send OK. Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com