I read that a user named BOINC is created during installation and has ownership of boinc items. I assume there is a password?

I wish to create an app_config.xml file at
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/..whatever..

Generally, when I mess around in places other than my home directory I get permissions so wrong that things that used to work don't work anymore. I got to thinking that if I could log in as "boinc", the permissions would be good to start with and then I can create that file with no worries. I tried logging in and also "su boinc" but alas I need a password it seems.

other suggestions are welcome.

thanks for looking

No it doesn’t have a password. It is not intended to be an interactive account but rather a daemon user.

I usually login or su to root, change whatever in the /var/lib/boinc-client folders and then do a chown boinc:boinc * to change ownership back to user BOINC.

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MarkJ

Yes, that worked. Just was wondering if a real user account was created where I could just change identity to boinc.

I just switched to grcpool project manager and unlike boincstats they take ownership of the system at the various projects. This caused problems at Einstein as I had specified 1.0, .5, 0.33 and 0.25 for various venues depending on the system. grcpool does not support venues so all my projects defaulted to 1 WU per nvidia board. I had to go to each Einstein project directory and put in the app_config with the correct gpu/wu count. I have not used ubuntu for a while and had forgotten even where the directory was.