Quoting Ketan C Maheshwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hornoy Francois wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Something i have not really understood yet: i'm following the tutorial on > the > > GlobusConsortium website. > > > > If a client (let's say "bob") wants to run a job on a Globus remote > machine, > > there must be a "bob" UNIX account on the Globus remote machine ? > > > nopes, as long as i understand, the globus machine's grid-mapfile must > map that users' DN to his/her accountname and a separate account on > globus machine is not required.
Okay. But when if i run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grid-mapfile-check-consistency Checking /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile grid mapfile Verifying grid mapfile existence...OK Checking for duplicate entries...OK Checking for valid user names... ERROR: bob is not a valid local username ERROR: Found 1 invalid username(s) So, how should i deal with this? Thks, Francois. > For those tasks that needs > authentication the client must delegate his/her credentials to globus > user to perform them on clients behalf. > > Or shall i map every user certificate subjects in the grid-mapfile to the > local > > user "globus" ? > > > delegation is a cleaner solution. > > Thanks for helping, > > > > Bye, Francois. > > > > > >
