[Pkg-silc-devel] Bug#444685: irssi-plugin-silc: Can not /load silc for the first time: key generation fails

[Juraj Bednar]

Package: irssi-plugin-silc
Version: 1.1.2-2
Severity: normal


When I do /load silc for the first time, I get this:
Running SILC for the first time
Could not create public key identifier: Success
Press <Enter> to continue...
Your private key doesn't exist
Could not create public key identifier: Success
Press <Enter> to continue...
Wrong permissions in your private key file `/home/tq/.irssi/private_key.prv'!
Trying to change them ... Failed to change permissions for private key file!

The same problem is with silc-client itself.

The problem is probably within lib/silcapputil/silcapputil.c in function 
silc_create_pk_identifier which for some reason returns NULL. 

It is called within the same file in this code:

  if (!identifier) {
    char *def = silc_create_pk_identifier();

    if (interactive) {
      memset(line, 0, sizeof(line));
      if (def)
        silc_snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "Identifier [%s]: ", def);
      else
        silc_snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
               "Identifier (eg. UN=jon, HN=jon.dummy.com, "
               "RN=Jon Johnson, E=jon at dummy.com): ");

      while (!identifier) {
        identifier = silc_get_input(line, FALSE);
        if (!identifier && def)
          identifier = strdup(def);
      }
    } else {
      if (!def) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not create public key identifier: %s\n",
                strerror(errno));
        return FALSE;
      }
      identifier = strdup(def);
    }

  The parameter "interactive" is always false (it is called with false
as argument), so when that function returns NULL, there's no way to
create public key identifier, thus irssi-silc-plugin and silc-client
are unuseable.


   Juraj.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages irssi-plugin-silc depends on:
ii  irssi                       0.8.10-2     terminal based IRC client
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.8.8]   5.8.8-7      The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

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