Re: gnome-keyring is ffmpeg supposed to be accessing ?

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 18.08.2013 01:57, mind builder wrote:
> i was using ffmpeg to trim a video and it worked, but every time I run
> it the top of the terminal output starts with the error:
>
> ":WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to:
> /run/user/mindbuilder/keyring-jAd74z/pkcs11: No such file or directory"
>
> Do programs like ffmpeg normally access the gnome-keyring or has my
> ffmpeg been trojaned to steal my encryption keys or something? It's not
> obvious why trimming a video would require access to my keyring. I don't
> care about preventing this error message. I just want to know if I've
> been hacked. I asked this question over at the ffmpeg[Libav] package
> page on Ubuntu Launchpad, and it was said that there is nothing in Libav
> that would access gnome-keyring.
>
> I'm using ffmpeg version 0.8.6-6:0.8.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 under xubuntu
> 12.10 amd64.
> I guess Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop without gnome and so may not have
> gnome-keyring installed completely or even partially.

There was a couple versions where the gnome-keyring pkcs11 module (which
has nothing to do with the actual password keyrings) printed out this
innocuous warning, when it was loaded and couldn't connect to
gnome-keyring-daemon.

gnutls was automatically loading the module. This is almost never an
indication of an actual problem.

See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665961

Cheers,

Stef