DYNES-Deployments

[Wilson Dillaway <>]

Jason,
     How closely does the DYNES membership map to InCommon membership?

                Wilson


On 9/2/2012 4:30 PM, Ross, Justin wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > **********************************
> > > 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
> > > **********************************