On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have > elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's installed via the F10 > repositories. I'm running boinc on an unprivileged user. > > I've been trying to get BOINC configured to connect to my accounts ever > since I installed the X86_64 version of Fedora 10 several months ago. Today > I got a crazy idea and tried running the boincmgr binary as a superuser and > to my surprise I was able to connect to the client and configure it, > something that I have been trying off and on for the past several months to > do without success. Did you configure the boinc password? Network access? In general you need to add --redirectio --allow_remote_gui_rpc to /etc/syscnofig/boinc-client (latest version only!), and save your clear-text password in $BOINC_HOME/gui_rpc_auth.cfg. > > Since I never had to run it as a superuser when I installed from the > tarball off the Boinc.berkeley.edu server, I suspect this is a RedHat/Fedora > issue. Can someone explain the rationale behind requiring admin privileges > to configure BOINC? Default -Fedora- configuration doesn't accept network connection. The default upstream version does. > > I managed to work around it by "chmod +s" all the Boinc binaries, but I > shouldn't have to do that! > Don't. - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
