Fwd: grid-proxy-init caveats

[Robert Olson]

>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:05:56 -0800 (PST)
>From: Matthew Rodriguez DSD staff <mateo at george.lbl.gov>
>Reply-To: Matthew Rodriguez DSD staff <mateo at george.lbl.gov>
>To: olson at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: grid-proxy-init caveats
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>So bob I was able to fix pyGlobus so that it could create a proxy.
>Unfortunately the memory to the credential handle cannot be freed. (The
>interpreter will crash.) Right now the best work around to this is to
>change the __del__ method in the GSSSCred class, to not release the
>credential. This is a memory leak, and a hack.
>
>Also pyGlobus can only do this if you are using globus-2.0. In globus-2.2
>the gssapi has been changed. globus-2.0 uses gssapi-2.0 and globus-2.2
>uses gssapi-3.0. gssapi-3.0 does not include sslutils.h which is needed to
>compile the shared library sslutilsc, which is needed for grid-proxy-init
>call.
>
>Anyway, I am not done with this problem. If you are creating many of these
>credentials and you need to release the memory I should be able to solve
>that problem before the end of next week(before SC). Please tell me if you
>are going to be using glous-2.2 because that is a whole other can of
>worms.
>
>Matt Rodriguez