On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 15:43 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > 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? Yum version. > > > > 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. As far as I remember, in the default configuration, only the user 'boinc' can connect to the service. (I maybe wrong, though) > > > > 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. As far as I know, if you're user X, and boinc runs as user Y, you can either drop the security (chmod +s, etc) or use networking. I'd suggest you file a bug report about the default configuration. The maintainer is -very- forthcoming. - 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
