Why on earth do I need to enter a password to crunch under an already existing account? Entering a password when you create an account makes sense, if you don't want people stealing your points. And if you don't care one way or another about your points, than a password isn't necessary.

I'm trying not to be rude, and it's very hard. There is no reason to prevent someone from crunching under an account that's not theirs. If someone transferred money to your bank account, would you want to suppress further transfers? Probably not.

It is truly mind boggling that someone smart enough to do stuff at Berkeley(I'm assuming it was a student or teacher that programmed that feature) did something like this.

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It's to stop people sabotaging other people's accounts, and to try to stop morons creating trojans or viruses where the payload is Boinc.

There are concerns that a simple password isn't enough, and more authentication is required before adding a host.

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Jasong, if somebody transferred money out of my bank account I would want to investigate very carefully whether the bank hadn't followed strict security measures, or I hadn't followed all the bank's advice.

We know for a fact that in the past at least one person has wanted to crunch boinc project workunits on computers that didn't belong to them. Every precaution is necessary on the part of boinc, the projects and crunchers.

And if you don't care one way or another about your points, than a password isn't necessary.

Then don't complain if somebody changes your settings, or posts on the forum under your name.

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It's not that I don't care about stats. And as far as preventing people from installing it using a Trojan, how about a captcha feature?

What happened to me was that I was crunching Sudoku and wanted to check my progress using the GUI. Not only did I never get to see my progress, because of the password problem I mentioned(I have no idea what the password was or how I could have figured it out), but after a few tries it started up, but had suddenly decided to use all 4 cores and download Riesel Sieve work units. I've obviously had those settings in the past, but they weren't what I wanted at the time. At the moment, I'm not even sure if it's possible to retrieve the Sudoku work.

Now do you understand my frustration?

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Now do you understand my frustration?

Nope, now I'm more confused.

Are you talking about the project account password, or the GUI password used to connect the manager to the client?

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