On 9/5/07 1:09 PM, "Ben Clifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > > * 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) If we're talking about infrastructure options, gaards is another interesting option. We used it at Harvard to help implement their Crimson Grid and it's core to caBig as well. http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/GAARDS rw2 -- Rich Wellner Enterprise Architect Director of Professional Services Univa Corporation The Leaders of Open Source Cluster and Grid Software Lisle, IL 60532 Lisle: +1 630 563 8617 Mobile: +1 630 464 7650 London: +44 20 7193 8617 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.univa.com
