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raubvogel

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Message 37325 - Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 17:15:11 UTC

I just installed boinc in an ubuntu linux box and realized my account info is stored in /var/lib/boinc-client/. Is there any reason for it not to be stored in the user's home directory? It just makes me think that only one user in this linux box would be able to run boinc.
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whynot

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Message 37377 - Posted: 2 Apr 2011, 16:52:12 UTC

Yes. Quoting /usr/share/doc/boinc-client/README.Debian.gz:


For security reasons it is executed as the system user 'boinc' which only has write access to the BOINC data directory.


plz pay attention to the three leading words.
I'm counting for science,
points just make me sick.
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