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On Friday 28 Jul 2017 15:23:05 Gregory Woodbury wrote: |
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> By default, BOINC daemon is started by root and supposedly drops |
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> permissions after a bit. However, the CERNVM VirtualBox application |
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> cannot run as root, so they recommend running BOINC from a user |
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> account that has virtualbox permissions; VirtualBox, on the other |
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> hand, will not run as root for security reasons. |
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> I got around this by making BOINC as "user" and moving its $HOME to |
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> /home/boinc/ and I don't think I had to change anything (except the |
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> /etc/conf.d/boinc file.) |
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I run it as me in its own partition, under /home/prh/boinc/. I also had to |
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change /usr/share/applications/boincmgr.desktop so that I could run the GUI. |
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> I am not using any hardening in the kernel, so that may complicate things. |
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It does. Everything worked just fine until I hardened the kernel. I don't |
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know yet whether BOINC can run at all on a hardened system. Whence my |
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question. |
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> I currently run some 11 projects, including SETI, CERN, Einstein, and |
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> World Community Grid. Everything works fine for me. |
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Yes, I run seven projects, including all those except WCG. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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