On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote: > 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. > That's interesting. Did you install via YUM, or did you download the tarball? > > Did you configure the boinc password? Network access? > Nope. I've got BOINC running on my "workstation" and am trying to connect on the same machine. > > 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. > But, I'm running it on the same machine. > > Default -Fedora- configuration doesn't accept network connection. > The default upstream version does. > Yes, that's the sort of behavior that annoys the crap out of me. Fedora/RedHat in their *infinite wisdom* have decided that we can't be trusted to run *anything* as a normal user (as witnessed by them requiring admin priveleges awhile back to run XCDRoast!) > > > I managed to work around it by "chmod +s" all the Boinc binaries, but > > I shouldn't have to do that! > > Don't. > Well, a friend on another group pointed out that BOINC creates a user/group to run as. I've added myself to that group. Hopefully that'll fix it. When I get home (or more likely tomorrow morning) I'll chmod -s all those binaries and give it a shot again. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
