Adding a FusionGridRA
Adding a FusionGridRA
We need at least one other person authorized to issue FusionGrid
certificates.
The act of issuing certificates requires having a certificate in
your browser, clicking on a link in an email, knowing the requester
personally and/or checking with one of the sponsors that the
request is legit and then clicking on a button. You will also
receive email whenever a request is made. There is generally a
pretty low level of mail.
You need DOEGrids credentials for this purpose. To get authorized
as agents, you must send the public certificate in a signed email
to Dhiva (dhiva@es.net), who will then authorize the certificate.
Please use 'Certificate for FusionGrid CA Agent' as a subject
for the e-mail and in the email tell us that you want to use
the following certificate as my agent certificate for the
FusionGrid CA and then copy your certificate. Please CC the
e-mail to Lew Randerson (lranderson@pppl.gov), as a confirmation
from Lew is also needed.
Note: As far as I can tell, a FusionGrid CA Agent and a
FusionGridRa are the same thing.
A PPPL FusionGridRA can:
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o Accept FusionGrid Certificate requests e-mail
These e-mails have the subject
"FusionGRID CA - xxx Certificate Request in Queue"
where xxx is PPPL, GA, or MIT
o Approve these requests
We do these for PPPL with Doug McCune's okay.
(We sometimes do get spurious requests.)
I have sometimes approved TRANSP specific
requests for GA and MIT but then I have had
call up David Schissel or Martin Greenwald to
get their approval for the requestor.
o Request approval is done by clicking on the
url given in the E-Mail and then approving
the request on the page to which you are sent.
Requirements:
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o A DoeGrids certificate of the form
CN=Xxx Xxxxxxxxx 999999, OU=People, DC=doegrids, DC=org
Where Xxx Xxxxxxxxx is your name and 999999 will
be a latter defined number.
o Getting one is the complicated procedure we used to
make all the users go through.
o Requesting a DOEGrids certificate is described in:
http://www.doegrids.org/pages/How-To-Import.html
And then in:
http://www.doegrids.org/pages/cert-request.html
Affiliation will be "FusionGrid"
Sponsor will be "Doug McCune"
o The certificate key will be stored in your browser
at request. The certificate itself will be stored
in your browser when you import it from the page
where it was stored after approval.
o I will get e-mail about this request and then can
approve it.
o After approval you can go to http://www.doegrids.org,
lookup the certificate, and then import the certificate
from the details subpage into your browser.
o This certificate is required in your browser when
approving a certificate request and is also used as
a signature in your e-mail requesting FusionGridRA
status
To apply for FusionGridRA status:
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o Send your DoeGrids-certificate-signed mail to dhiva@es.net
with a copy of your certificate in the form. E-mail
subject is "Certificate for FusionGrid CA Agent". Contents
are something like ... I want to use the following
certificate as my agent certificate for the FusionGrid CA
and then copy your certificate.
For More Details:
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o For more details, see
http: www.fusiongrid.org/FusionGridCP-1.0b.doc