Bug#720849: boinc-manager: Can't connect to boinc-client due to empty password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg

[GUO Yixuan]

Control: tag -1 + unreproducible
Control: severity -1 normal

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:08:05AM +0200, Julien Palard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08/25/2013 09:28 PM, MestreLion wrote:
> >/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg is created empty because authorization is
> >not required for local access (ie, managing a boinc client running in localhost).
> 
> So I missed something, while connecting, from localhost before setting the
> password, I had the error, after setting the password, connexion went
> sucessfully.
> 
> >So most likely your issue is not related to gui_rpc_auth.cfg,
> 
> Adding a password in the file and using it solved my problem, so I
> mis-interpreted the origin of the problem.
> 
> So maybe my boinc-client was seeing my connexion as a remote one ? The buf
> may be here ?
> 
> I just tried on another debian box and it works without password as you
> said.
> 
> I may try to remove the password on my first box and run some tests for you
> if you have an idea.

Unfortunately, up to now, no one else successfully reproduced this bug.
I guess this probably has some relation to the config files, such as
/etc/hosts or /etc/hostname or the lo interface in
/etc/network/interfaces, that is related to hostnames resolution and
networking. You can try to compare them to another unaffected box.

Regards,

Yixuan