On Friday 28 Jul 2017 15:23:05 Gregory Woodbury wrote: > By default, BOINC daemon is started by root and supposedly drops > permissions after a bit. However, the CERNVM VirtualBox application > cannot run as root, so they recommend running BOINC from a user > account that has virtualbox permissions; VirtualBox, on the other > hand, will not run as root for security reasons. > > I got around this by making BOINC as "user" and moving its $HOME to > /home/boinc/ and I don't think I had to change anything (except the > /etc/conf.d/boinc file.)
I run it as me in its own partition, under /home/prh/boinc/. I also had to change /usr/share/applications/boincmgr.desktop so that I could run the GUI. > I am not using any hardening in the kernel, so that may complicate things. It does. Everything worked just fine until I hardened the kernel. I don't know yet whether BOINC can run at all on a hardened system. Whence my question. > I currently run some 11 projects, including SETI, CERN, Einstein, and > World Community Grid. Everything works fine for me. Yes, I run seven projects, including all those except WCG. -- Regards Peter
