[gin-auth] [Fwd: gsi proxy compatibility test]

[Olle Mulmo]

I believe GIN-auth recommended that RFC compliant proxies should be  
used.

In practice, this means that software from any GT2 or GT3  
distributions will _not_ be able to handle this proxy format, whereas  
the same libraries shipped with GT4 (and also native openssl 0.9.7g  
and beyond) can.

Note also that in GT4.0.x, the grid-proxy-init command line tool does  
not  generate RFC-compliant proxies by default for backwards  
compatibility reasons:

You have to type "grid-proxy-init -rfc"

/Olle

On Mar 16, 2006, at 08:49, Erwin Laure wrote:

> Not sure this message went through.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Erwin
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	gsi proxy compatibility test
> Date: 	Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:45:28 -0800
> From: 	Alex Sim <asim at lbl.gov>
> Reply-To: 	<asim at lbl.gov>
> Organization: 	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> To: 	<gin-auth at ggf.org>
> CC: 	<asim at lbl.gov>, "'Erwin Laure'" <Erwin.Laure at cern.ch>
>
>
>
> I have not been subscribing to this mailing list, and I'm not sure
> if this issue has been discussed previously.
>  From GIN-DATA mailing list, we came across that GSI proxy format
> compatibility testing needs to be addressed.
> In many practices, gsi proxy format is not compatible and different
> version and implementations of gridftp servers reject the  
> authentication
> without too much clue. So, if it could be tested as gridftp
> interoperability, it'll be great.
>
> --Alex
>