DYNES-Deployments

["Ross, Justin" <>]

I personally will second Alan's comments and the desire not to maintain a 
bunch of local accounts.

Justin

On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:24 PM, "Sill, Alan" 
<>
 wrote:

> Hi Malathi,
> 
> We are still configuring our DYNES FDT node, which arrived (after release 
> from our local network group) configured with the DYNES adn FDT software, 
> but without its storage configured or any interfaces to account mapping for 
> setting up transfers.
> 
> The use case for having a local account on each machine is not clear.  
> Perhaps it would help if your were to describe a set of operations that you 
> would like to try.  Our university policies do not allow us to provide 
> direct access to anyone except identified guest researchers, but we do have 
> a setup in place that allows mapping of members of grid VOs to local 
> accounts for job execution.  We can also support GSI-secured SSH logins to 
> local non-privileged user accounts through GSI-OpenSSH for OSG and other 
> grid VO members.  (University of Virginia is, for example, a member of the 
> SURAgrid VO, which would provide a mechanism in your case if the VO 
> approves.)  To do this, we would have to install grid client access and the 
> account would have to be able to carry out its needed functions through 
> non-privileged access.
> 
> Would this be OK?
> 
> Alan Sill
> Texas Tech University 
> 
> On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Malathi Veeraraghavan wrote:
> 
>> Dear fellow DYNES participants,
>>    
>> We would like to start testing our software between multiple DYNES
>> hosts and test the use of dynamic circuits. Since accounts are under local 
>> site control,
>> we are writing to you all to request access.
>> Please see the answer to Q13 of the FAQ site that Jason Zurawski created:
>> http://www.internet2.edu/ion/faq.html
>> 
>> We will reciprocate by offering login access on our DYNES endpoint. We look
>> forward to your responses.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> MV
>> 
>> -- 
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>> Malathi Veeraraghavan
>> Professor, Charles L. Brown Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering
>> University of Virginia
>> 1-434-982-2208
>> 1-203-904-3724 (cell)
>> http://www.ece.virginia.edu/mv
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