On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a VObox security policy document has been released today.
>
> https://edms.cern.ch/document/639856/
>
> Since it will be part of the discussion at the operation workshop, any
> comment is apreciated.
"2 Definitions
A Site is a set of Grid Services provided by an institute.
...
The Resource Administrator of a site is the person responsible for
providing and maintaining a Grid Resource or Grid Service at that site.
The Site manager is the individual who has overall responsibility for the
operation of a site."
^should be 'S'?
I think this is too simplistic - it may be that at large Sites the "Site
manager" has enough clout to decide e.g. which ports should be open and
to/from where, but at smaller sites (like Brunel) we have to get clearance
from higher up. (Maybe in some sense we're only "Resource Administrators")
So in practice we'd have to take the completed questionnaire to someone in
our Institute's CS dept. anyway, and the situation is still basically that
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Experiments/VOs wishing to operate services on hosts inside Brunel
> > University's network and/or externally visible within the brunel.ac.uk
> > domain must apply in writing to the head to Computer Services here.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
except that we're acting as the middleman, with the obvious inefficiencies
that implies.
Thanks
Henry
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