Quote Originally Posted by Mumps View Post
That may mean the local client you are trying to run has the wrong pasword configured. Make sure the BOINC Client (boincmgr in Linux installations at least) is being run from the same directory/folder as the boinc --daemon. And make sure it is using the same password as you may have set in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg.
That may be the problem ... I had changed the password in gui_rpc_auth just before I rebooted the VM. Shouldn't BOINC pick that up the next time it is started?