Proposal: Switch SU to use one account per project

[sebastianmbobrecki]

I think switching SU to use one account per project have some benefits:

• distribution of only weak account keys as it is more secure option
• ability to create account in all projects by hand despite disabled/broken/not working RPC; so no more thing like this: [Amicable Numbers] Invalid or missing account key. To fix, remove and add this project .
• ability to set some project preference once to take effect for all SU volunteers globally; like for example turning on GPU apps on PrimeGrid, etc.

There are probably more, these few are just those that quickly came to my mind. Probably there are also some cons, but so far I don't find any.

[davidpanderson]

I switched things to this model. This will take effect going forward. Existing (per-user) accounts will continue to be used.

[sebastianmbobrecki]

Sorry for late answer. I still see: 06-Mar-2019 17:32:20 [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/] Master file download succeeded 06-Mar-2019 17:32:25 [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 06-Mar-2019 17:32:25 [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/] Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU 06-Mar-2019 17:32:26 [Amicable Numbers] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 06-Mar-2019 17:32:26 [Amicable Numbers] Invalid or missing account key. To fix, remove and add this project .

[davidpanderson]

Please send me (by email) your acct_mgr_reply.xml file.

[sebastianmbobrecki]

Cited from #9:

We already switched to the signal-account model. I changed the Primegrid settings for this account to allow GPU apps.

I was reattached to PG:

... 10-Mar-2019 22:27:51 [---] Attaching to http://www.primegrid.com/ 10-Mar-2019 22:28:09 [http://www.primegrid.com/] Master file download succeeded 10-Mar-2019 22:28:14 [http://www.primegrid.com/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. ...

but still got "old" account. The same full authenticator since January.