Hi Stephen,
glad to know it works. When will gLite VOMS be deployed in LCG?
I'd like to give it another try.
thanks
cheers
alessandra
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alessandra Forti said:
>> it has been pointed out to me that my reply might be misunderstood.
>> So I'll rephrase it. The VOMS server on its own works, you can easily
>> create roles, groups..... it is the client part of VOMS that
>> created me
>> problems i.e. voms-proxy-init wasn't working for me (and
>> others) as it
>> should have unless used in a very basic way i.e. like grid-proxy-init.
>
> The glite voms-proxy-init works, I use it regularly. If people want to
> try it it's supposed to be possible to ask for access to the
> pre-production system, although it's still in a somewhat unstable state
> at the moment. Also as I mentioned last week it might be useful for a UK
> site to join the PPS, although it will take some work at the moment so I
> guess not anyone involved with SC3!
>
>>> to understand group roles etc. you need also at least a CE,
>> (SE,RB?) that can
>>> query the VOMS server and a voms-proxy-init that works.
>
> One point on that, services don't need to contact the VOMS server, they
> can verify the credentials directly as long as they have installed the
> host certificate of the VOMS server. The RB does contact VOMS if/when it
> renews a proxy.
>
> Stephen
>
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