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Old 28th May 2008
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In ttyv0 I get this message:
gnome-keyring-daemon[877]couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk.

I cannot find anything in the handbook or by googling,is it something I should worry about.
Is ttyv0 the right term to use,or does it have another name.
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Gnome keyring and KDE KWallet are essentially the same thing (if you are familiar with KDE).


Judging by the message my guess is it can not place the passwords in memory in whatever it defines as a 'secure' place that can't be read or corrupted by other programs.

If it's stored on disk instead of in memory, hopeflly not in $TMPDIR, /tmp, /var/tmp. And stored with a decent encryption algorithm so that access is done by prompting the daemon for it's unencrypted form.

Be worried? Depends on the situation.

The first virtual teletype is a place where a number of system messages go, you can adjust whats sent there with syslog's facilities for it I think.


Which is why I usually use ttyv1 to login from.
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In ttyv0 I get this message:
gnome-keyring-daemon[877]couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk.
i think it means that gnome-keyring-daemon couldn't perform mlock(2) to lock memory pages since mlock(2) requires root privileges. this is probably a security measure. check what user its running as?
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Thanks for the suggestion,still feeling my way around freeBSD,how would I go about checking mlock(2) privileges.
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what's the o/p of:
ps -j `pgrep gnome-keyring`
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derek# ps -j pgrep gnome-keyring
ps: illegal argument: pgrep
usage: ps [-aCcefHhjlmrSTuvwXxZ] [-O fmt | -o fmt] [-G gid[,gid...]]
[-M core] [-N system]
[-p pid[,pid...]] [-t tty[,tty...]] [-U user[,user...]]
ps [-L]
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you missed the backticks
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Sorry I must learn to concentrate a bit more.

derek# ps -j `pgrep gnome-keyring`
USER PID PPID PGID SID JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
derek 871 1 846 846 0 I ?? 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/gnome-key
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its not running as root. you could make the program suid but IMO making a program suid thats not been carefully written and audited is a greater risk than someone reading sensitive info paged out to disk.
i would suggest that you ignore the error messages and if it bugs you too much you could disable it via syslog.conf. if you still have any doubts then write to the port maintainer.

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derek# ps -j `pgrep gnome-keyring`
USER PID PPID PGID SID JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
derek 871 1 846 846 0 I ?? 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/gnome-key


Using the quick reply box distorted it a bit,this should be better.
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Thank you kindly for all your help,will take your advice and ignore it.
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