$OpenBSD: patch-lib_silcclient_client_c,v 1.1 2005/07/28 21:28:10 brad Exp $
--- lib/silcclient/client.c.orig	Thu Mar 31 01:07:10 2005
+++ lib/silcclient/client.c	Thu Jul 28 15:23:55 2005
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ bool silc_client_init(SilcClient client)
     SILC_LOG_ERROR(("Malformed hostname '%s'", client->hostname));
     return FALSE;
   }
-  if (!silc_utf8_valid(client->realname, strlen(client->realname))) {
+  if ((*client->realname != '\0') && (!silc_utf8_valid(client->realname, strlen(client->realname)))) {
     SILC_LOG_ERROR(("Malformed realname '%s'", client->realname));
     return FALSE;
   }