[gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is active from now

Cindy Zheng zhengc at sdsc.edu
Fri Mar 10 01:58:25 CST 2006


Thanks, Vincenzo. I see. I need to talk to Oscar then.

Oscar, this is the attached file in your email.
What's the key and where do I get it and how should these files be
installed?

Thanks,

Cindy

> > Do you mean the server cert dec-2005-kuiken.nikhef.nl.pem?
> > What's the key?
> 
> I fear that for the file name of the key you should ask 
> whoever gave you the certificate.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincenzo Ciaschini [mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:45 PM
> To: Cindy Zheng
> Cc: 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo'; gin-auth at ggf.org; 
> 'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett 
> Charlie'; 'David Colling'; m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; 
> yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 
> 'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw; 'mason j. katz'
> Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is active from now
> 
> 
> Cindy Zheng wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Vincenzo,
> > 
> > 
> >>You need to do nothing special with the server certificate 
> other than 
> >>installing it (along with the key) in /etc/grid-security.
> > 
> > 
> > Do you mean the server cert dec-2005-kuiken.nikhef.nl.pem?
> > What's the key?
> > 
> 
> I fear that for the file name of the key you should ask 
> whoever gave you 
> the certificate.
> 
> Bye,
>     Vincenzo
> 
> P.S:  I just realized I may have misunderstood your question.  If you 
> meant:  what to do with the VOMS server cert in other 
> machines (not the 
> VOMS server), then the answer would have been instead:
> 
> Copy the certificate (not the key) in 
> /etc/grid-security/vomses/<voname>/
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Cindy
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Vincenzo Ciaschini [mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it] 
> >>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:45 PM
> >>To: Cindy Zheng
> >>Cc: 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo'; gin-auth at ggf.org; 
> >>'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett 
> >>Charlie'; 'David Colling'; m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; 
> >>yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 
> >>'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw; 'mason j. katz'
> >>Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is 
> active from now
> >>
> >>
> >>Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thank you, Vincenzo! These are very helpful 
> >>>requirement info. Perhaps can be included in 
> >>>the INSTALL file in the voms package?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Yes.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Now I have finished make and make install.
> >>
> >>So, you can confirm that now building worked?  If so, I will commit 
> >>1.6.21, which will remove the need for the workaround during 
> >>compilation.  I will announce here once it is done.
> >>
> >>
> >>>What do I need to do with the server pem file,
> >>>mkgridmap.conf etc.? Is there an url for such 
> >>>instructions?
> >>>
> >>
> >>You need to do nothing special with the server certificate 
> other than 
> >>installing it (along with the key) in /etc/grid-security.
> >>
> >>Also, there is no need of having a gridmapfile in the VOMS 
> server, so 
> >>there is no need to do anything special.  If you instead 
> >>meant what to 
> >>do on other sites to get a gridmapfile from VOMS, then the 
> >>exact format 
> >>depends on how you configure VOMS, so instructions are 
> >>provided by voms 
> >>itself, at the page of the admin interface.  See the "configuration 
> >>info" link.
> >>
> >>Bye,
> >>    Vincenzo
> >>
> >>
> >>>Dear all, I'm thinking that this may be a good 
> >>>opportunity to find out what info we need to 
> >>>provide to Other grid admins and users to make 
> >>>Grid interopration easier. Perhaps through our 
> >>>experiment, we can jot down a step by step 
> >>>interoperation guide for each grid?
> >>>
> >>>Welcome thoughts and suggestions from everyone! 
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Cindy 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: Vincenzo Ciaschini [mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it] 
> >>>>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:24 PM
> >>>>To: mason j. katz
> >>>>Cc: Cindy Zheng; 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo'; 
> >>>>gin-auth at ggf.org; 'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip 
> >>>>Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett Charlie'; 'David Colling'; 
> >>>>m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane 
> >>>>Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw
> >>>>Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is 
> >>
> >>active from now
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>doxygen is only a requirement if you want documentation.  
> >>>>Otherwise, you 
> >>>>can disable doc generation with the --enable-docs=no option 
> >>>>to configure.
> >>>>
> >>>>Anywya, the software requirements are the following:
> >>>>
> >>>>Globus   Version 2.0 and up.
> >>>>expat    (both libraries and includes) from 1.95.5 and up.  Not
> >>>>         tested with prevoius version, but it should work.
> >>>>
> >>>>doxygen  Tested with 1.3.5, should work with earlier versions.
> >>>>latex
> >>>>sgml tools.
> >>>>
> >>>>Note that the need for doxygen, latex and the sgml tools 
> >>>>disappears if 
> >>>>--enable-docs=no is specified.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Finally, at least one of:
> >>>>mysql       include and libraries from 4.0.14 and up
> >>>>Oracle      include and libraries, tested with 10, should also
> >>>>            work with 9.
> >>>>
> >>>>Bye,
> >>>>   Vincenzo
> >>>>
> >>>>mason j. katz wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>In addition to doxygen are there any other requirements 
> >>>>
> >>>>that systems  
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>may not typically have installed?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Cindy - look in 
> >>
> >>(/home/install/rocks-dist/lan/i386/RedHat/RPMS) on  
> >>
> >>>>>crayon and you will see all the OS RPMs, you can install 
> >>>>
> >>>>the doxygen  on 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>one the frontend and try the compilation again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   -mjk
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:01 AM, Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Hi, Vincenzo,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I don't see any rpm bearing name with doxygen, but did find
> >>>>>>some files named with doxygen. Since this is rocks cluster,
> >>>>>>it came with a lot of software build in, I'll check with our
> >>>>>>Rocks developers to be sure. What version of Doxygen does
> >>>>>>voms require?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Cindy
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>From: Vincenzo Ciaschini 
> [mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it]
> >>>>>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:14 PM
> >>>>>>>To: zhengc at sdsc.edu
> >>>>>>>Cc: 'Mason Katz'; 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo';
> >>>>>>>gin-auth at ggf.org; 'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip
> >>>>>>>Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett Charlie'; 'David Colling';
> >>>>>>>m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane
> >>>>>>>Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw
> >>>>>>>Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is 
> >>>>
> >>>>active from  now
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Thank you, Vincenzo, for your help!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Hi Cindy,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>The work-around got me a lot further along.
> >>>>>>>>But I encountered another error during make.
> >>>>>>>>Since Yusuke was able to install with GT 2.4.3 without
> >>>>>>>>much problem, I wonder if this is because that we are
> >>>>>>>>running GT4?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>I'm attaching the log files (unix text files).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>What exactly the error was is uncertain since you only sent
> >>>>>>>me stdout,
> >>>>>>>but not stderr, so the actual error message is not present in
> >>>>>>>the dump.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>However, judging from where compilation stopped, you had
> >>>>>>>problems with
> >>>>>>>doxygen during the generation of the documentation.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Can you tell me what version of doxygen you have installed?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Bye,
> >>>>>>>   Vincenzo
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Thanks again!
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Cindy
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>>>From: Vincenzo Ciaschini 
> >>>>
> >>>>[mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:30 AM
> >>>>>>>>>To: Cindy Zheng
> >>>>>>>>>Cc: 'Mason Katz'; 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo';
> >>>>>>>>>gin-auth at ggf.org; 'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip
> >>>>>>>>>Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett Charlie'; 'David Colling';
> >>>>>>>>>m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane
> >>>>>>>>>Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw
> >>>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>active from now
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Thank you, Vincenzo, for your reply!
> >>>>>>>>>>We are running Rocks which has GT4 already build-in.
> >>>>>>>>>>I believe it's NMI distribution. To be sure, better
> >>>>>>>>>>have our Rocks expert, Mason, to answer your questions.
> >>>>>>>>>>Mason, could you answer Vincenzo's questions?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Thanks,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Cindy
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Hi Cindy,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>  I think I have a pretty good understanding of what the
> >>>>>>>>>problem is,
> >>>>>>>>>and of a solution to it, along with a (admittedly ugly)
> >>>>>>>>>workaround while
> >>>>>>>>>we commit the solution.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Explanation:
> >>>>>>>>>  Normally, the $GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/ directory 
> contains a
> >>>>>>>>>subdirectory for each globus flavor.  No packaging of globus
> >>>>>>>>>we tested
> >>>>>>>>>had the ldap_backend directory there.  The ./configure 
> >>>>
> >>>>script takes
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>>>advantage of this to discover what flavors are present.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Clearly, the
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>presence of ldap_backend messes things up.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>The solution:
> >>>>>>>>>  We will rewrite the configure.ac script to take into
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>account the
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>possible presence of the ldap_backend directory.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>The workaround:
> >>>>>>>>>  While waiting for the new release, you can do the 
> >>>>
> >>>>following to
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>>>compile anyway:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>1) mv $GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/ldap_backend $GLOBUS_LOCATION/
> >>>>>>>>>2) do the normal build cycle (configure/make/make install)
> >>>>>>>>>3) mv $GLOBUS_LOCATION/ldap_backend £GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Bye,
> >>>>>>>>>  Vincenzo
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>>>>>From: Vincenzo Ciaschini 
> >>>>
> >>>>[mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:01 AM
> >>>>>>>>>>>To: zhengc at sdsc.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>>Cc: 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo'; gin-auth at ggf.org;
> >>>>>>>>>>>'Olivier van der Aa'; 'Philip Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett
> >>>>>>>>>>>Charlie'; 'David Colling'; m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk;
> >>>>>>>>>>>yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane Skow'; 'JP Navarro';
> >>>>>>>>>>>'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw; 'Mason Katz'
> >>>>>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>active from now
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Cindy Zheng wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Hi, Vincenzo,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Hi Cindy,
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Following you and Yusuke's discussion, I downloaded
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/packages/R1.5/N2006030
> >>
> >>3/src/gli
> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>te-security-vo
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>ms-1.6.20_src.tar.gz
> >>>>>>>>>>>ran configure and make, then encountered an error (below)
> >>>>>>>>>>>with make. I'm also attaching the full log with command
> >>>>>>>>>>>lines. The target cluster is a rocks 4.1 cluster, running
> >>>>>>>>>>>GT4. Appreciate any help. Let me know if you need 
> more info.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Cindy
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Here is the problem, taken from the output of configure:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>checking for GLOBUS flavors... found  gcc32dbg gcc32dbgpthr
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>ldap_backend (gcc32dbg selected)
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>As you can see, ldap_backend is discovered as a flavor even
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>though it
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>obviously is not one.   I'd have to say this is the first
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>time something
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>like this happens. What version of globus have you
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>installed ?  And was
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>it taken from the globus site or from some other packaging?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Bye,
> >>>>>>>>>>  Vincenzo
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> > 
> 





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