I'm running boinccmd, built from BOINC 7.16.6, on a company server (CentOS 7 Core) as a non-root user (I am responsible for the project, but I am not the admin). When trying to connect to an existing account or attach projects, I get an authentication error. The admin added me to the boinc group, which according to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10903 should solve the issue, but it doesn't. I can run simple commands like --version or --get_state without problems, and I have confirmed that the client is up and running, and that my working dir is /var/lib/boinc/. But so far, I cannot get it to perform any tasks. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Which command do you use?

boinccmd --run_benchmarks

boinccmd --project_attach http://worldcommunitygrid.org <my_key>

Try

boinccmd --project_attach http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ <your account key>

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That is what I did, I forgot to type in the www in my previous post.

Are you using your full account key or the weak account key?
Which directory are you running the command from? Does your BOINC Programs directory have a path into the environment path?

I just tested it for myself, have BOINC Manager open.
Did the command from the BOINC Programs directory (in my case, Windows, C:\Program Files\BOINC)

C:\Program Files\BOINC>boinccmd --project_attach http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org (my-key)

09/09/2020 17:59:00 |  | Setting up GUI RPC socket
09/09/2020 17:59:00 |  | Checking presence of 685 project files
09/09/2020 18:05:36 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] Fetching master file
09/09/2020 18:05:36 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Fetching scheduler list
09/09/2020 18:05:38 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] Got master file; parsing
09/09/2020 18:05:38 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] Found 1 scheduler URLs in master file
09/09/2020 18:05:38 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Master file download succeeded
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] sched RPC pending: Project initialization
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] CPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
09/09/2020 18:05:44 | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | [sched_op] AMD/ATI GPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices

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Normally you have to also supply the password (the one in /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg) so try this (substituting the password).

boinccmd --passwd PASSWORD --project_attach http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org (my-key)

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MarkJ

I'm using my full account key. I'm on CentOS 7, so I'm running from inside /var/lib/boinc.

There is no password in /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg. The owner is root:root though, I'll check if that's the problem.

You can manually add a password into the file, something of your own. Doesn't need to be a whole sentence. No line feed at the end though.

The problem was the ownership of the files, changing it to boinc:boinc did the trick. Thanks everyone for your support!