Try

boinccmd --project_attach http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ <key>
then
boinccmd --lookup_account http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ ericinboston mypassword

I spun up another Centos 7.x vm and ensured all the network stuff was open. After doing the 3 install steps:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

yum localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install boinc-client boinc-manager

it all installs fine. I then start it with:

systemctl enable boinc-client
systemctl start boinc-client

and all appears ok.

I try any of the commands to lookup my account or attach and I still get the same "authentication error" message.

PecosRiverM: I tried all sorts of syntax with your suggestions but I can't get anything to work. Can you provide an example(s)?

I tried

boinccmd --localhost --<root pw> --lookup_account https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org ericinboston <mypassword> and that fails. Linux spits back:


usage: boinccmd [--host hostname] [--passwd passwd] [--unix_domain] command

default hostname: localhost
default password: contents of gui_rpc_auth.cfg
Commands:
<and then the huge list of commands>


Any other suggestions?

I didn't use --localhost I used
boinccmd --host 1/508 --password (whatever) command

Don't remember if I put -- before command

Edit found my cheat sheet. This is what I was doing that I had to add --host and --passwd to:

watch -n 20 boinccmd --host 1/508 --passwd (whatever) --project http://fill in whatever/ update

I hope this might help but, I'm still learning this linux stuff myself.

Make sure you have Openssl installed and use https pretty sure http won't connect anymore.

I think it is a connection issue not command sysntax

posting error messages might help

my 2 cents

Hi Poppageek. I have posted the error messages but I'm also a linux newbie....so if people want me to do something like give you a log file or enable something in some config file, unfortunately I would need exact instructions. I'm a Windows/DOS god but I know very little in the world of linux.

Oldchap asked me to:
cd into boinc client in Mint this would be cd /var/lib/boinc-client

but I could not find the boinc-client folder/directory.

Is there a BOINC log file that I can post here that is capturing fine details about why it cannot do the commands other than throw back the ambiguous "authentication failure"?

Thanks so much!