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Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Martin said:0
> We were told that the NGS do not insist on you providing a 
> gsissh service 
> but they do strongly encourage it. My guess is that this 
> really arises 
> from the nature of NGS. Unlike EGEE there doesn't seem to be 
> any notion of 
> sgmXXXXX accounts and software is either installed by the sites 
> themselves or it is a DIY task. Without interactive access, getting 
> applications properly installed and working could be awkward.

On the face of it this is what in EGEE terms is the VOBOX node type
rather than a UI. At any rate it might well be easier to start from the
vobox configuration.

> One way to avoid the need for a UI copy of the user's key is to use
> 
>  	voms-proxy-init -voms XXX -cert $X509_USER_PROXY \
>  	                          -key $X509_USER_PROXY

Just use the -noregen option to use an existing proxy as the source.

Stephen