Getting started with a grid certificate: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction
  • A grid certificate is needed to authenticate yourself as a CMS member.

  • It allows you to access CMS data and computing resources such as the WLCG (grid).

Obtaining and downloading a personal certificate
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Converting the .p12 certificate for use with voms-proxy-init
  • From the downloaded certificate two separate files need to be extracted.

  • The extracted user key and certificate files need to be in your ~/.globus directory on the machine on which you would like to obtain a grid proxy.

  • These files should only be readable for you.

Glossary

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