[AG-TECH] grid-proxy-info & init

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hey Chris,

This is a good request. Is it for the AG folks or should we contact the
Globus folks (who wrote and maintain gpinit gpinfo, et al)?

Cheers,

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Christoph Willing
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 4:49 PM
> To: AG-TECH
> Subject: [AG-TECH] grid-proxy-info & init
>
> This isn't really a bug, more of a feature request -
>
> New identity certificates aquired recently are issued by AG
> Developers and, in Linux systems, are stored in the user's
> .AccessGrid directory tree. The previously issued Globus
> identity certificates were stored in the user's .globus directory.
>
> Although grid-proxy-info is able find these newer
> certificates and report on them, grid-proxy-init will not
> work. It looks in the .globus directory, which doesn't exist
> for the newer certificates. The actual output is:
> ~$ grid-proxy-init
> user certificate not found
>         Cert File=/var/lib/ag/.globus/usercert.pem
> Function: proxy_init_cred
> ~$
>
>
> The -cert and -key options to grid-proxy-init will work to
> make grid-proxy-init look in different locations, but these
> locations are horrendously error-prone e.g for one particular
> machine, I need to type:
>
> grid-proxy-init -key
> .AccessGrid/certRepo/privatekeys/3915260c10f91fe25bd690a4f80c0037.pem
> -cert
> .AccessGrid/certRepo/certificates/f5d473eee6f6e6c97266997422a5
> ca54/f05e3a2e909373343c5378059f861381/cert.pem
>
>
> Could grid-proxy-init be modified to be as smart as
> grid-proxy-info in searching for certificates i.e. that it
> automatically searches the .AccessGrid tree?
>
>
> chris
>
>
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