>> 1) Is it possible to configure GridFTP to authenticate over SSH rather >> than use certificates, I'm mainly intersted in GridFTP user authentications, >> i.e. authentication/encryption of the gftp control channel. > > ...... This is quite a > complicated issue and it is nearly impossible to glue those two frameworks > together. > GridFTP can be configured to do this, and there are some nice new > reliability features in globus-url-copy that you may find met you needs and > could allow you to not need RFT (depending on what you are doing). >
Thank you all for prompt responses. The reasons we want to use RFT are: reliablility (restart on broken transfer) and to know the status of an ongoing transfer. I'll look into the gridftp features if we can use it directly without RFT. One feature we need is to know the progress of an ongoing transfer. I tried globus-url-copy with the -vb option and it mostly does what we want. Is there a way for a 3rd-party to query an ongoing gridftp transfer to know it progress ?? thanks ARN
