[AG-TECH] Re: How to bypass Globus' security in AccessGrid

David G Mills dgm at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 2 06:43:51 CDT 2004


yes i've seen that, but haven't tried to follow it.
what I get now after using those rpm's is this:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(VenuseClient.py:29713): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Is this what you see? Any ideas?

Dave.

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Socrates Varakliotis wrote:

> There's also this, not sure if it helps:
> http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/howto/fedora2install.html
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David G Mills" <dgm at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: "Socrates Varakliotis" <S.Varakliotis at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Cc: "Piers O'Hanlon" <P.OHanlon at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: How to bypass Globus' security in AccessGrid
> 
> 
> > yes I saw that... it would seem to be some fedora related bug in gtk, or
> > possibly AGTK using somthing in gtk that is private. I am install wxGTK
> > and wxPython from RPM as I had no problems using these last time.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Socrates Varakliotis wrote:
> >
> >> > I'll try the --insecure switch in a sec. When you say it hasn't worked 
> >> > for
> >> > you, do you get errors or does it still use the GSI functions?
> >>
> >> No, I get no errors, both server and client start fine. However, the
> >> client pops up a message saying it cannot find the server. Will be
> >> looking at this closer today.
> >>
> >> Eric's message says that the EventService and TextService are not fully
> >> "insecure" and still require globus, proxies, etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>  > Hi Socrates,
> >>  > There is an --insecure option for both the VenueClient and
> >>  > VenueServer.
> >>  > The insecure option uses http for soap communications and
> >>  > considerably speeds up actions such as entering a venue.  But,
> >>  > with the current toolkit, there are a few AGTk components (such
> >>  > as the EventService and TextService) that need to be be modified
> >>  > to avoid all need for security, so globus and a globus proxy are
> >>  > still required at this time.
> >>  >
> >>  > Eric
> >>
> >
> > 
> 





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