Hi Arpit,as it's name says you can use generic attributes to store generic user information additionally to group memberships and roles in your VOMS. For example looking at the VO management of the German Grid Initiative (using a combination of VOMS and VOMRS) a user has to specify user information at registration which could be (currently is not) stored/issued as generic attributes, for example his nationality or institution. Naturally those information need to be validated by someone else.
You could use such user attributes to also base authorization decision on them. For example only authorizing VO members being member of a special institution for using some special resources.
I guess you currently cannot use those generic attributes with the GT VOMS-PDP. As I remember this only maps FQAN to users, but the generic attributes are not part of users' FQAN in contrast to the VO groups and roles.
Regards, Benjamin arpit jain schrieb:
HiiI have installed VOMS and created a VO successfully. I am also able to authorize GT4 services based on Roles assigned by VOMS Server. However I am not very sure about how to use "Generic Attributres". Just for example, if I create a Generic Attribute say 'ID" then how to use that? I want to know what purpose do they solve or what is the usage of "Generic Attributes"?? ThanksArpit
-- M.Sc. Benjamin Henne, Research Associate Regionales Rechenzentrum fuer Niedersachsen (RRZN) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover Contact: http://www.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/henne.html
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