fsssh allowsx to mount a remote file system directory to a local directory. All what is needed for this is an ssh access to the remote machine. I would like to know, whether a simliar tool existst for Globus so that it is possible to mount a remote filesystem on a host which can only connected via a globus grid connection?
It is possible to configure GridSite (an apache module that runs with httpd) as a file server that will use X.509 certs to authenticate to the system and GACL (or a sub-set of XACML) for authorization (access control to files/directories). There is then a fuse client you can compile to do file system mounts through a system called SlashGrid. GACL, compared to every alternative I've seen, has the advantage that it is simple and self-explanatory. The challenge, in my experience, can be getting the various parts to compile, although it is all heavily used within EGEE (which means it is is designed to compile as part of the gLite monolithic OS+software stack), so the code is solid and maintained.
http://www.gridsite.org http://www.gridsite.org/slashgrid/ Ian -- Ian Stokes-Rees W: http://sbgrid.org [email protected] T: +1 617 432-5608 x75 SBGrid, Harvard Medical School F: +1 617 432-5600
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