I started using passwords for BOINC a few months ago when I spotted an attempt to access from an overseas location. The password mechanism worked fine up until yesterday when I started using Ubuntu 17.10.1 as a workstation and not just a headless server.

BM comes up "blank" and I have to go to FILE, then SELECT COMPUTER, and then type in LOCALHOST and set the password. BM then works just fine. However it does not store those settings. Quitting BM and restarting I have to do this all over again. It either should remember the last computer selected or not bother to ask for a password for "localhost" since there is no "remote" access as the computer is actually "local".

Maybe there is some setting I failed to use. IANE on Linux.

Thanks for looking!

Debian has been doing that for ages. I add a desktop launcher and change its properties to include the password parameter. That allows it to talk to the BOINC client. In the properties it will have “boincmgr” so you change it to be “boincmgr —password xxx” where xxx is your password. Don’t include the quotes and that’s two hyphens.

You should use a firewall as well, rather than just relying on the BOINC password to keep the hackers out. See message 84967

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MarkJ