Table of Contents
The Globus Toolkit Pre-Web Services Authentication and Authorization component provides APIs and tools for authentication, authorization and certificate management.
The authentication API is built using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technologies, e.g. X.509 Certificates and TLS. In addition to authentication it features a delegation mechanism based upon X.509 Proxy Certificates.
Authorization support takes the form of a couple of APIs. The first provides a generic authorization API that allows callouts to perform access control based on the client's credentials (i.e. the X.509 certificate chain). The second provides a simple access control list that maps authorized remote entities to local (system) user names. The second mechanism also provides callouts that allow third parties to override the default behavior and is currently used in the Gatekeeper and GridFTP servers.
In addition to the above there are various lower level APIs and tools for managing, discovering and querying certificates .
Features new in GT 4.0
- None
Other Supported Features
- Authentication of user using standard X.509 End Entity and Proxy Certificates.
- Delegation using X.509 Proxy Certificates.
- Pluggable authorization based on the client's certificate chain for GridFTPD and Pre-WS GRAM.
- Pluggable authorization for Pre-WS GRAM based on the RSL of the job.
Deprecated Features
- None
- Bug 1217: gss_export_name() does not conform to RFC 2743 section 3.2
- Bug 1334: request for more strict format checking in grid-mapfile-check-consistency
- Bug 1740: Implicit module activation
- Bug 1802: accept_sec_context doesn't set LIMITED_PROXY_FLAG for GSI_3_LIMITED_PROXY
- Bug 1847: grid-cert-request with both /etc/grid-security and $GL/share/certificates
- Bug 1854: grid-cert-info help message is missing a word
- Bug 1927: authz linking problems on Mac OS X
- Bug 2035: globus_callout_read_config sets datum->next to datum
- Bug 2180: The most trivial bug report ever
- Bug 2207: Missing security error 'timestampNotOk'
- Bug 2316: openssl vendorcc32 on solaris fails
- Bug 2357: grid-mapfile* commands ignoring env var GRIDMAP
- Bug 2368: grid-default-ca ignores X509_CERT_DIR env. variable
- Bug 2476: 3.9.4 rc3 gaa_simple does not build with --static=1
- Bug 2499: grid-cert-request interactive mode
- Bug 2558: grid-default-ca doesn't work if there isn't already a default CA
- Bug 2564: openssl in 3.9.4 isn't building for non-dbg vendorcc flavors on Solaris
- Bug 2695: Openssl pthread build fails on Tru64
The Pre-WS Authentication and Authorization component depends on the following GT components:
- C Common Libraries
The Pre-WS Authentication and Authorization component depends on the following 3rd party software:
- OpenSSL
Protocol changes in Pre-WS Authentication and Authorization since GT 3.2
- None
API changes since GT 3.2
- None
Exception changes since GT 3.2
- Not applicable
Schema changes since GT 3.2
- Not applicable
Click here for more information about this component.