[Swift-devel] can we disable the gridftp authentication for swift on BGP?

[Zhao Zhang]

Hi, Ben

I tried regular ftp, the connection was refused:
zzhang at login6.surveyor:~/swift/test> ftp ion-10.surveyor.alcf.anl.gov:59829
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ion-10.surveyor.alcf.anl.gov'


Then as gridftp webpage said, I tried telnet that worked fine.
zzhang at login6.surveyor:~/swift/test> telnet ion-10 59829
Trying 172.16.3.10...
Connected to ion-10.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 172.16.3.10 GridFTP Server 2.8 (gcc32dbg, 1217607445-63) [Globus 
Toolkit 4.0.8] ready.

zhao


Ben Clifford wrote:
> I'm led to belive that -auth_level 0 disables authorization checks, not 
> all of gsi; so with that parameter, you still need to have your server 
> and client configured with credentials (that is -auth_level 0 eliminates 
> the need for a gridmap file , not for credentials)
>
> I'm also led to believe that you could run the server with -aa and use 
> ftp: as a uri scheme instead of gsiftp: (assuming cog supports that, which 
> I think it does) in order to get anonymous access.
>
> My suggestion would be to try with a regular ftp client against your 
> server to check that it is working ok before pointing Swift at it.
>
>