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The Grid Community Toolkit documentation was taken from the Globus Toolkit 6.0 documentation. As a result, there may be inaccuracies and outdated information. Please report any problems to the Grid Community Forums as GitHub issues. |
GCT → GSI C
The Grid Community Toolkit GSI C 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.
For important general concepts. |
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For system administrators and those installing, building and deploying GCT. You should already have read the Installation Guide and Quickstart |
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Describes how end-users typically interact with this component. |
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Reference and usage scenarios for developers. |
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Other information available for this component are: |
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What’s new with the 6.2 release for this component. |
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Information for all public interfaces (including APIs, commands, etc). Please note this is a subset of information in the Developer’s Guide. |
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Information about test coverage reports, etc. |
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Information for migrating to this version if you were using a previous version of GT or GCT. |
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