Debian Bug report logs - #444685
irssi-plugin-silc: Can not /load silc for the first time: key generation fails

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juraj Bednar <jooray@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: irssi-plugin-silc: Can not /load silc for the first time: key generation fails

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:00:21 +0200

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@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

irssi-plugin-silc recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 444685@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juraj Bednar <jooray@gmail.com>

To: 444685@bugs.debian.org

Subject: additional information

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:28:41 +0200

The problem is probably within lib/silcapputil/silcapputil.c in function
silc_create_pk_identifier which returns NULL, because
silc_pkcs_silc_encode_identifier returns null, when username is shorter
than three characters (two-character usernames are quite common in our
environment).

the good behaviour would be to allow user to specify identifier.

Also, when nothing else, at least write WHY exactly did this fail, so
one does not have to look through source code and use debugger to find
out the exact cause of the problem.

So my proposed fix:

Either remove the bogus limitation of username length (I don't
understand what exactly is wrong with one or two character usernames) or
allow user to specify their identifier when this check fails.

Message #15 received at 444685@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juraj Bednar <juraj@bednar.sk>

To: 444685@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed upstream

Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:25:12 +0100

This bug was fixed upstream and does not occur in current version in the
repository (lenny).

Can be safely closed.


 Juraj.

Message #20 received at 444685-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>

To: 444685-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#444685: fixed upstream

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:23:00 +0100

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On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 01:25:12AM +0100, Juraj Bednar wrote:
> This bug was fixed upstream and does not occur in current version in the
> repository (lenny).
> 
> Can be safely closed.

Done. :)

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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