OK.  We were talking WCG's Helping Conquer Cancer, which does not have a new enough server to use the weak account key.

For the projects I've ever crunched, only seti, BRaTs, and mindmodeling use weak account keys. 

There are a few I've never crunched, like Chess960, Hydrogen, Malaria, Predictor, Project Neuron, Proteins, SciLinc, SIMAP, SuperLink, Tanpaku, Lattice.  However, the odds seem low that these projects use the weak account key either.

That leaves the honor system with the email address, like was done at TSU, and hoping no butthead hijacks the account for personal gain.

To quote Greeri, any hijacker would fry in Hell for eternity, so we'd live with that.

The other suggestion that was bandied about was to list those memorialized in the account profile under why I crunch this.

I, for one, have no particular preference on the project, and have no problem with using the email address/password to access it. 

You don't need to use a key or e-mail to attach to a project once you have a system running.  All you need is a copy of the account_*.xml file.

On the target machine, just copy the account_*.xml file from the project you are adding into the directory where BOINC lives and restart BOINC.  The account_*.xml file contains all information needed to attach and run the project, with whatever preferences have been setup.

I use this method as a very rapid way of adding a project to multiple machines, or when setting up a new blade. 

It was very nobel of you to volunteer Schnook.

OK, having checked with WCG, we've found they're secure with the account key going out in the xml file.

Kinguni will establish the account and post the xml file shortly.

ed: Or not, given that WCG just said they'll be upgrading their servers in 9-12 months, and the weak authenticator will be required.  Meanwhile I would rather not see the full authenticator in the wild, since it could only be "re-caged" by establishing a new memorial account.

I would suggest whoever is in charge of the memorial accounts store a copy of the account*.xml files on the server here so that someone that wants to use it can just download it and drop it into their BOINC folder.

One thing we mentioned about profile was to list who we're crunching for (memorializing) under "Your Personal Background."  I suppose this could, or should, be prefaced with the fact that this is the Team Starfire World BOINC Memorial account with a brief statement of its purpose.

Two, I'd prefer it to have a computing share of 100%, putting it on a par with the default (and all my other projects).  I'm going to run this account for 30 days, setting it to no new tasks on the 30th day.  Once it's out of cache, I'll detach it until the next time. 

Three, it might be nice to show computers; we can then probably find our own and get an idea of what it's doing and/or our personal share of the account's work.

Good the default share of 100 is definately the way to go, it should be much easier for participants to work with that way. If it becomes an issue we may want to set the different venues to different resource shares. I think that will still work even without access to the preferences, the venue follows whichever project you set the global preferences on. (Set school to something unusual for a test.)

I also support showing computers, however if anyone objects hiding them is acceptable.

I download the xml file to my BOINC directory, restarted and it worked fine. We will need a page or download directory for all of these once the projects update enough to use them.

We will not need three .xml files. At every scheduler RPC the rest of the file gets downloaded, what is posted here is only a fragment. The question is will venue specific project preferences be picked up when you can not assign the host to a venue at that project. Normally the venue is picked up from whatever project you set your global prefs at, however I am not sure that will work with what we are trying to do. 

I would suggest setting the venues to 500/50/10, the defualt would still give us the 100.

I still think we would need a page to organize all of the files, explain what the memorial account is about and list the people who we have honored. Message board threads just don't seem like enough once this really gets going.