{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558/events","html_url":"https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558","id":56224984,"number":1558,"title":"Windows 7 Home Premium has no group management - no control by reg users","user":{"login":"romw","id":985772,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985772?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw","html_url":"https://github.com/romw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"romw","id":985772,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985772?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw","html_url":"https://github.com/romw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-02-02T11:28:01Z","updated_at":"2015-02-03T06:33:42Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**Reported by smoe on 22 Jul 42281657 04:04 UTC**\nThe typical presumed single user low budget (~ $700) machine over here comes with Windows 7 Home Premium ... which basically means ... Windows 7 minimal and with some likelihood represents the majority of Windows BOINC installations. That has no group management. Hence, there is no way for a regular user to control BOINC, which is configured to run for all users. Only the administrator can run it.\r\n\r\nMy suggestion is to have group management optional and just allow everyone to control BOINC who has the active Windows session ... on those machines that do not have group management. I do not recall that behaviour from BOINC 6.\n\nMigrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1182"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/comments/72601555","html_url":"https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558#issuecomment-72601555","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/1558","id":72601555,"user":{"login":"romw","id":985772,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985772?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw","html_url":"https://github.com/romw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-03T06:33:41Z","updated_at":"2015-02-03T06:33:41Z","body":"**Commented by J Langley on 21 Jul 42288756 07:49 UTC**\nI've experienced similar issues. [was running BOINC 6.12.34 as a service (with all users able to control BOINC), and upgraded to 7.0.25,  but no longer running as a service (though still with all users having the ability to control BOINC). When I logged in to my Administrator account, BOINC started and I could launch the GUI. But when I logged on to a standard user account BOINC did not appear to start properly (no tasks were started); when I launched the GUI and selected to attach to localhost I got the error message about not belonging to boinc_users.\r\n\r\nI followed the suggestions above to manually add the standard user into the boinc_users group (surely the installer should have done this automatically for me?), but this did not resolve the problem.\r\n\r\nI've uninstalled 7.0.25 and reinstalled 7.0.25 as a service again. Now everything is fine (all users can access the GUI and control BOINC), but sadly this prevents me from using my GPU or VirtualBox (for Test4Theory).\r\n\r\n[[BR]([BR]]I)] This defect appears to be related to (or a duplicate of) ticket #1025.  [[BR]] Since ticket 1025 is flagged as a Blocker, I'm very surprised the 7.0 series has become the recommended client with this defect still in place.\r\n\r\nI found this latest upgrade so frustrating that I registered for TRAC specifically to update this ticket."}}