Re: Real Name in /etc/passwd

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:25:31PM -0400, Lin0xx :. wrote:

> When I first ran the silc client, I noticed that after my pass phrase was
> accepted, the program would terminate.  Bewildered and confused by this
> action, I went to silc on silc.silcnet.org and asked there to find out that
> there had to be a real name set in /etc/passwd to be able to allow the
> client to run.
>

You didn't mention what client you are using? I tried to produce this
error with 

    SILC-Client 1.0.2 (Irssi base: 0.8.6+ - SILC base: SILC 1.0.2)

but couldn't.


> If you all would be able to add some sort of warning if such
> an event happens, this would be a great service to new silc users.
> 

I assume that client tries to find realname from there, but it
shouldn't depend on it.


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