Misleading error message which can cause trouble in debugging

[YashKumarVerma]

Caracal/handlers/authHandlers.js

Lines 31 to 61 in 91fec6d

	try {
	const prikeyPath = './keys/key';
	if (fs.existsSync(prikeyPath)) {
	PRIKEY = fs.readFileSync(prikeyPath, 'utf8');
	} else {
	if (DISABLE_SEC || ENABLE_SECURITY_AT && Date.parse(ENABLE_SECURITY_AT) > Date.now()) {
	PRIKEY = '';
	console.warn('prikey null since DISABLE_SEC and no prikey provided');
	} else {
	console.error('prikey does not exist');
	}
	}
	} catch (err) {
	console.error(err);
	}
	try {
	const pubkeyPath = './keys/key.pub';
	if (fs.existsSync(pubkeyPath)) {
	var PUBKEY = fs.readFileSync(pubkeyPath, 'utf8');
	} else {
	if (DISABLE_SEC || ENABLE_SECURITY_AT && Date.parse(ENABLE_SECURITY_AT) > Date.now()) {
	PUBKEY = '';
	console.warn('pubkey null since DISABLE_SEC and no pubkey provided');
	} else {
	console.error('pubkey does not exist');
	}
	}
	} catch (err) {
	console.error(err);
	}

The code block on line 40 and 56 are triggered when DISABLE_SEC || ENABLE_SECURITY_AT && Date.parse(ENABLE_SECURITY_AT) > Date.now() turns false. This has no relation to the files being present or not, whereas the block logs out a message saying XXX does not exist

[VishalMyla]

it seems that the purpose of this error message is to alert the user that the file is missing and cannot be used for authentication.

[tanii1125]

hey is the issue still there? can i work on it?