hi all,
FYI: we just ran into a strange issue with mod_gridsite, delegated
proxies and globus 4.08 based tools:
A webserver is configured using httpd+mod_gridsite; credentials are
delegated to the server, the user proxy ends up in /var/www/proxycache
For a particular user the X509_USER_PROXY env var is set to
X509_USER_PROXY="/var/www/proxycache/%3A%2FDC%3Dorg%2FDC%3Dterena%2FDC%3Dtcs%2FC%3DNL%2FO%3DNikhef%2FCN%3DCristian%2BCirstea%2Bccristi%40nikhef.nl/0eef8b9abfb4f449/userproxy.pem"
by mod_gridsite.
With this setting for the X509_USER_PROXY env var all globus-based tools
(i.e. most of the glite middleware) segfault (e.g. lfc-ls -l /grid/
segfaults).
A second, simpler test is to do
mkdir /tmp/%s
export X509_USER_PROXY=/tmp/%s/proxy
grid-proxy-init
globus-url-copy gsiftp://.....
the last command will segfault.
After some investigation it turns out that this is an issue deep inside
the globus libraries, where it feeds the contents of
"getenv('X509_USER_PROXY')" to an sprintf like function : this function
then tries to expand/fill in all entries with %<n><LETTER>, causing the
segfault.
Is this a known bug? is it fixed in GT5?
Thanks,
JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Nikhef
Amsterdam
