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

Donal K. Fellows donal.k.fellows at manchester.ac.uk
Fri Dec 14 05:34:30 CST 2007


Ian Foster wrote:
> Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>> 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?

I've no idea really; it's not my own area to be honest. Is there a
written up way to do this somewhere that I can point my colleague at?

Donal.


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