http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: from /root/ to your home directory en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:02:58 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2049 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:46:12 +0000 Nichole 2049@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>SILC is secure. It is the safest way to chat - it is for the paranoid. </p> <p>I also use other clients. I would really like to get back unto SILC. I believe the problem is that I am missing the server key file. Hopefully, I will be able to email from a friend and put it in my .silc folder ... </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2035 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:37:58 +0000 jd2066 2035@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>If you put in a blank password, checked "Remember Password" and it still doesn't work then I don't know what else you could try.<br /> I tried searching on Google and didn't find much either.<br /> Actually this is the first I've heared of the SILC protocol, I usually use stuff like IRC and Yahoo Messenger.<br /> Why do you want to use SILC instead of something like Yahoo Messenger?<br /> Justin </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2033 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:11:53 +0000 Nichole 2033@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just tried and I am still getting the same error message! I do not know what I am doing wrong! And I am having a hard time finding anything on google. It seems the world has destined me not to have silc. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2031 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:31:05 +0000 jd2066 2031@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>From a quick Google search on the error I found one page that said that can be caused by pidgin needing to use a password saved in the silc account properties as it doesn't open a password dialog when connecting.<br /> Justin</p> <p>Edit:<br /> I just tested this in pidgin and it appears to work.<br /> I created a silc account in pidgin with a blank password and checked remember password and it connected. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2025 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:30:38 +0000 Nichole 2025@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Then why will it not work? I still get error message: Could not load SILC key pair </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2018 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:19:48 +0000 jd2066 2018@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>The problem is that those instructions are for setting up silc on a Linux like OS.<br /> For Windows XP you don't need setup instructions as pidgin on Windows has silc support builtin.<br /> Justin </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2017 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:36:14 +0000 Nichole 2017@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>after that, copy those new spiffy keys from /root/ to your home directory</p> <p><a href="mailto:cg@segfault:~$">cg@segfault:~$</a> sudo su<br /> <a href="mailto:root@segfault:/home/cg#">root@segfault:/home/cg#</a> cp /root/.silc/public_key.pub /home/cg/.silc/<br /> <a href="mailto:root@segfault:/home/cg#">root@segfault:/home/cg#</a> cp /root/.silc/private_key.prv /home/cg/.silc/</p> <p>I am trying to get silc to work with pidgin </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2016 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:55:14 +0000 supermansghost 2016@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>What keys? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/from-root-to-your-home-directory#post-2014 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:25:35 +0000 Nichole 2014@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>How do I copy those keys from /root/ to your home directory?</p> <p>I am running XP 07. </p>