Hello,
I've just changed the version of my Mac OS X system (from 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 Snow Leopard).
Then Boinc refused to work ("please reinstall it"). So I 've reinstalled Boinc with the last version (7.0.65). (I used previously 6.12.X).
The installer ask me : "Do you want authorize managing Boinc for non admin users ?"
I'm the only admin users of my mac, but it has other users (non admin) and I want to be the unique admin. So I answered "No".
Then, after the installation, impossible to launch Boinc-manager !
I have this message :

"You are not autorised to..."
"Please reinstall answering Yes..."
"or contact your admin : he must add this account to the groupe boinc_master"

I am my admin. So I did that : added my account to boinc_master.

New message :

(error code 6961580)

So I tried the other alternative : reinstal Boing answering Yes to the previous question.

New message :

(error code 6999804)

Nothing to do ?...
And why the installer didn't autorise me directly, as I am the only admin (except root) ?...

... and I eventually find out that it has given the groups boinc_master and boinc_project to an OTHER account NON ADMIN !...

I've changed that : now I'm the only member of these two groups and... it WORKS :-)

JiPaul.

---

JiPaul B.

Hello JiPaul,

Please run the following commands in the Terminal application (at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal or the French equivalent):

dscl . read -url /groups/admin GroupMembership
dscl . read /groups/boinc_master GroupMembership
dscl . read /groups/boinc_project GroupMembership

Then copy the results into a private message and send it to me. In the private message, please also tell me the name of the non-admin user which the BOINC installer incorrectly added to group boinc_master, and also the name of the admin user which you wanted BOINC to authorize.

Thank you for your help improving BOINC.

Cheers,
--Charlie

---

Charlie Fenton
BOINC / SETI@home Macintosh & Windows Programmer