[ogsa-hpcp-wg] HPCBP Extensions Short-list

[Ian Foster]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>> Kerberos credentials. See my comment above. Or possibly I don’t know 
>> what in this case is meant by Kerberos credentials? For what? Presumably 
>> for the activity to execute with those credentials. Then why just Kerberos?
> 
> We (well, actually one of my colleagues who handles interfacing with our
> astrophysics and astronomy users) want it for AFS access so that we can
> access users' home directories. I'm less keen on having to require them
> to use Kerberos to authenticate to the BES instance in that case though,
> mostly because our IT department only tolerates Kerberos to support AFS.

I realize this isn't an OGF issue, but is the solution here to map from 
X.509 to Kerberos credentials, as we do in various Globus deployments 
for example?

Ian.