- g_fprintf(stderr, _("could not open conf file \"%s\": %s\n"), current_filename,
+ /* client conf files are optional, and this fprintf ends up sending this message back
+ * to the server without proper auth encapsulation, leading to "invalid size: could not
+ * open .." This is fixed in TRUNK by completely rewriting this module's error-handling
+ * code. */
+ if (!is_client) {
+ g_fprintf(stderr, _("could not open conf file \"%s\": %s\n"), current_filename,