[Bug 1248715] Re: Change /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg to 0644

[MestreLion]

In my previous comment, I was refering to boinc *client*, not manager.
Sorry about the confusion

The manager does not, and should not, read /etc/boinc-
client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg at all.

For local connections, boinc-client does not require password, so
boincmgr connects fine. And for remote connections, the user must
manually provide the password (via GUI or --passwd), and that's the
whole point of a password authentication.

The *client* is the only one that needs to read /etc/boinc-
client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg , and only when authenticating remote
connections. As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407678 , perms root:boinc 640 are correct IMHO.
Password files should not be world-readable.

Maybe the problem you're experiencing has another cause: somehow your
client may think the local connection from manager is a remote one
instead of local. This can happen if boincmgr is started via terminal
outside the /var/lib/boinc-client dir and without --datadir arguments
(that's what bug #347651 is about). Notice the expected datadir is
inside /var, not /usr as you mentioned

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  Change /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg to 0644

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