On Wed 07-09-05 17:09, Ben Clifford wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What are common ways to manage a grid mapfile if there is no such support? > > The two ways that I commonly for automated mapping management are: > > * gx-map which allows a user to add/remove arbitrary mappings to their > account from the comand-line. This happens on some teragrid sites (at > least SDSC)
Available at <http://users.sdsc.edu/~gxmap/>. > * VOMS which allows a single server to indicate that a large number of > people belong to a particular VO and be mapped to a VO-specific user on a > large number of grid resources. This is common is OSG (where for example, > anyone who is listed in the OSGEDU VOMS server gets mapped to user > 'osgedu' on many/most OSG sites) -- Keith Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Diego Supercomputer Center <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst/> 858-822-0853 "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
