Hi Gianfranco,
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:43:22AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Moritz, > > >Is there something wrong/dangerous about simply entering the boinc group? > > > no, but what does happen if the system has a new user? who takes care of > adding him to the boinc group? > > this solution seems unfeasible in the long run... > > (maybe unix already have a solution I'm not aware of) > > cheers, > > G. Thank you for finding out that "adduser me boinc" fixes this! But why this problem doesn't exist before? Some recent permission changes on /var/lib/boinc-client/slots/? This solution (requiring a user to be in the boinc group) is not so problematic. It's just similar to the cdrom/floppy/... groups, where debian-installer adds the first (non-root) user to those groups, and other group management task is up to the system admin. Two concerns here: - Security? when a user is in the boinc group, he/she is considered as an admin for the boinc daemon, and should be able to do whatever he/she wants with boinc. Thus no problem here. - UI? Instead of crashing badly, there should be an error message about not being in the boinc group. (I don't know if upstream supports this.) Cheers, Yixuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
