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BOINC installation should not start the Manager under an admin account

Open romw opened this issue 10 years ago • 3 comments

Reported by Pepo on 31 Aug 40749311 12:00 UTC After launching the BOINC installation exe (Win7, for compatibility install) as a plain user (pretty possibly the one, under which credentials the BOINC suite runs), the installation raises an UAC to be able to run under some admin account credentials.

After the installation, the wizard offers a checkbox to launch the Manager prior to terminating itself. But the Manager is launched under the same admin account with elevated rights, which in turn (in the case of compatibility install) starts the client with same elevated rights. The apps follow...

The installation process should start the Manager at least as the plain user, who launched the installation.

Migrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1015

romw avatar Feb 04 '15 03:02 romw

Needs to be tested if this is still happening in current 7.6.33

ChristianBeer avatar Apr 07 '17 10:04 ChristianBeer

Needs to be tested if this is still an issue in 7.8.1

Ageless93 avatar Aug 17 '17 15:08 Ageless93

As I can see it is still an issue. There is a similar ticket #2107

AenBleidd avatar Feb 05 '18 23:02 AenBleidd