I'm trying to run boinc on my headless Arch Linux machine, but I've run into an issue. Apparently gui_rpc_auth.conf is supposed to be created in /var/lib/boinc the first time the boinc deamon is launched, however when I try to launch the deamon it prompts for the password that doesn't exist yet, so I can't launch it to create the password file. I'm probably doing something wrong somewhere. Could you guys point me in the right direction?

As far as I know, the specific name is gui_rpc_auth.cfg (not .conf) on all platforms. So please make sure you have the correct file.

The daemon shouldn't ask for a password, the password in the file is used by BOINC Manager to communicate with the client (daemon). The client can happily run completely stand-alone, without any GUI.

Of course, you can either make the file, name it correctly then and add a password, or you can start the client with the "--no_gui_rpc" switch (without quotes).

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it's probably asking for your root or sudo password

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