In my previous comment, I was refering to boinc *client*, not manager. Sorry about the confusion
The manager does not, and should not, read /etc/boinc- client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg at all. For local connections, boinc-client does not require password, so boincmgr connects fine. And for remote connections, the user must manually provide the password (via GUI or --passwd), and that's the whole point of a password authentication. The *client* is the only one that needs to read /etc/boinc- client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg , and only when authenticating remote connections. As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407678 , perms root:boinc 640 are correct IMHO. Password files should not be world-readable. Maybe the problem you're experiencing has another cause: somehow your client may think the local connection from manager is a remote one instead of local. This can happen if boincmgr is started via terminal outside the /var/lib/boinc-client dir and without --datadir arguments (that's what bug #347651 is about). Notice the expected datadir is inside /var, not /usr as you mentioned -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1248715 Title: Change /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg to 0644 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/1248715/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs