Hi,
In GLite there is the WorkSpace Service (from Globus) which will enable
you to give lifetime properties to a poolaccount.
It uses LCMAPS as a backend.
So it is in the pipeline to be deployed.
cheers,
Oscar
Brew, CAJ (Chris) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Doesn't GUMS from BNL (http://grid.racf.bnl.gov/GUMS/index.html) work
>something like this. I seem to recall it creates accounts in a single
>pool on the fly and assigns them the right properties for the VO. It
>doesn't seem to do account recycling though but then no-one's ever
>really solved all the security problems with that anyway.
>
>Yours,
>Chris.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Templon
>>Sent: 18 October 2005 11:07
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [LCG-ROLLOUT] number of pool accounts per VO
>>
>>Valentin Vidic wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:21:33AM +0200, Tim Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>(which is currently at 15,000 users). One of the operations was
>>>>taking
>>>>8 minutes since it was doing an O(n**2) lookup on the users.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>nscd or libnss-db can be used to speed up the lookups.
>>>
>>>But here is another idea: we use LDAP and create/delete
>>>
>>>
>>accounts on the fly.
>>
>>hmm, but how do you keep your accounting data, and
>>permissions on files, straight? creating accounts on the fly
>>OK, but deleting them?
>>
>> JT
>>
>>
>>
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