why is it that admin rights are needed to install BOINC?

I'm running the old client, which ends soon and I need to install BOINC on my computer. But we have the mainframe mentality here and I can't install it unless I get an admin to do it (I've been running the "legacy" client for about 5 years).

Can you create a client for those of us that don't have admin rights, or give us a clue as to how to "turn off" the need for them?

Thanks.

---

This is a security issue and I don't believe it will be changed. Hopefully if your I.T. manager was willing to give you permission to run SETI they will allow you to install it somehow.

---

BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8

This is a non-answer. Just unacceptable. There doesn't seem to be a reason to need admin access to install this application. If so, why? If not, take it out.

Permission is a two-way street. We were able to run the clasic SETI app. but that didn't need ADMIN access.

Again, my question to the BOINC developers and community: Can you create a client for those of us that don't have admin rights, or give us a clue as to how to "turn off" the need for them?

Thanks.

---

I sympathise, but this isn't really a BOINC, or even Windows, issue alone.

If it is your own computer, there isn't a problem. If it is somebody else's, they have a right to restrict what use you make of it. They (usually your employers) may be unreasonable, irrational, bureaucratic, oppressive, and everything else, but that is the way it is. The conditions for installing BOINC, and for attaching to some or all of the projects, are that you respect that.

As for what happened under SETI classic, this was one of the weaknesses that BOINC had to address.

---

This is a non-answer. Just unacceptable. There doesn't seem to be a reason to need admin access to install this application. If so, why? If not, take it out.

Permission is a two-way street. We were able to run the clasic SETI app. but that didn't need ADMIN access.

Again, my question to the BOINC developers and community: Can you create a client for those of us that don't have admin rights, or give us a clue as to how to "turn off" the need for them?

Thanks.

Swami,

If you refuse to accept that the owner of the computer, who bought the computer in the first place, who pays the bills for maintenance, security and power has a right to determine to what use it is put, then there is a very easy workaround....BUY YOUR OWN.
Don't expect Boinc or any of the projects to subvert the rights of the owner, that would be more in the virus category.

---

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward Justice"