The Grid Roll installs the Globus Simple Certificate Authority (CA),
to allow you to generate, and manage certificates. The first time you
log into the Frontend as root you will be prompted for the passphrase
for your newly installed CA. This passphrase should be secure, and
different from your root account password.
Enter CA passphrase:
Enter CA passphrase (again):
Installing Globus CA (takes a few minutes)
Done.
Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
Stopping MDS [ OK ]
Starting MDS [ OK ] |
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You must configure the Simple CA, even if you wish to use an different
CA system. After providing a passphrase, you may modify your Globus
configuration to use your preferred CA system. The Simple CA is
provided as a starting point, for users to setup there own grid
testbeds quickly as possible. Production grids may require a
different CA configuration.
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