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Message 948046 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 14:49:04 UTC
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Hi,

after installing 6.10.17 on 10.5.8, I get this message when I try to open the BOINC manager :

"BOINC MANAGER You currently are not authorized to manage the client. Please contact your administrator to add you to the 'boinc_master' group."

The problem is that I am logged in as ADMIN !!!
It's the only account set up on that computer (iMac G5 1.9GHz).

I've restarted, repaired permissions.
Any ideas ?

THANKS !

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Message 948049 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 15:12:52 UTC - in response to Message 948046.  

You might be admin, but you are obviously not member of the boinc_master group.
And nothing else does the message say. Weren't you asked during installation of 6.10.17 if you want to add users to that group?

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Message 948051 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 15:21:11 UTC - in response to Message 948049.  

Thanks Jahn,

I did say yes to adding users to the group.

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Message 948062 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 16:51:23 UTC

Does anybody know how to manually add the admin user to 'boinc_user'?

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Message 948074 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 18:18:07 UTC - in response to Message 948051.  
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Did you reboot after the install?

Does a repair install solve the problem? (Don't know if it's called that on a Mac, though :-)

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Message 948083 - Posted: 18 Nov 2009, 18:48:24 UTC

Rebooting will in 99% of the cases make sure that the accounts are recognized.
On some systems, waiting a few minutes between installing BOINC and starting to run it will also cause the accounts to be recognized. Why this is, is something the developer is trying to figure out now. A fix for this all will hopefully come with 6.10.19 (unknown when it comes).
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Message 948545 - Posted: 20 Nov 2009, 16:43:15 UTC

6.10.19 is available for the Mac for testing. get it from here.
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