I installed boinc 6.10.21 on my macosx 10.5 in order to upgrade from a 6.6 version that I was running today, and I am the admin user, and I was logged in as the admin user. As I was installing 6.10.21 I was asked if non admin users should be allowed to use boinc, and I said 'yes' to this. Then when I tried to open boinc I got a message like the following: "You currently are not authorized to manage the client. Either re-install and allow non-admin users or contact your administrator to add you to the 'boinc_master' user group."

So I tried to reinstall first, and I was not asked if non admin users should be allowed to use boinc.. so I retried a few times and got no different result..

So I downloaded 6.10.43 and installed that, and again I was not asked if non admin users should be allowed to use boinc.. and when I tried to run boinc I got the same message like: "You currently are not authorized to manage the client. Either re-install and allow non-admin users or contact your administrator to add you to the 'boinc_master' user group."

So I did a google search trying to figure out how to add my admin user to the bonic_master user group and found this http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=4237 which suggested I run the following in terminal:

sudo dscl . -append /Groups/boinc_master GroupMembership <your user's short name> CR

So I did this and now I get the following error:

BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly; please reinstall BOINC
(Error code -1200)

So I reinstall and I am ever asked the question about allowing non admin users again, and I still get this error message every after every reinstall attempt..

What should I do?..

Have you tried a reboot, after installing BOINC, to see if that clears the permission error?

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BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly; please reinstall BOINC
(Error code -1200)

So I reinstall and I am ever asked the question about allowing non admin users again, and I still get this error message every after every reinstall attempt..

What should I do?..

Stay with 6.10.43.
Download and run the AddRemoveUser utility with your user's short name as described here.

If that doesn't solve the problem, try download and run the Mac_SA_Secure.sh script also described on the same wiki page.

Please post here whether or not that solved your problem.

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Charlie Fenton
BOINC / SETI@home Macintosh & Windows Programmer

There is a problem with the memory allocation. If insufficient memory is found to store BOINC and the project's science application plus work unit in, you'll get an error -101.

Solution: Free up memory or add more memory to your computer.
See RAM Requirements for how much RAM you need free.

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