[Swift-devel] May need VOMS proxy for many OSG sites

[Ben Clifford]

this was my understanding when I left:

i) anywhere that takes a grid-proxy-init proxy will take a voms-proxy-init 
proxy, as brian bockelman notes.

ii) a voms proxy is a grid proxy with an additional annotation, as you 
describe.

iii) osg sites which use grid map files will generally accept either kind. 
osg sites which use VOMS directly require a voms proxy.

iv) I considered the issue of packaging voms-proxy-init in the broader 
context of making swift work in harmony with the OSG software stack. To 
that end, I experimented with making swift installable through pacman (one 
of the earlier releases has that noted on the download page, I think) so 
that you could install it along with an osg stack. That would give you, 
for example, voms-proxy-init, but also things like OSG's CA collection.

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