Hi,

 very valuable information - probably another reason for sticking to GSI
unfortunately in the production space...

>- VOMS 2.0 is due to be out during autumn this year.

What is the chance that this VOMS 2.0 get a huge deployment in EGEE then?!

Thanks,
Morris

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>------Original Message-----
>-From: pgi-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:pgi-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of
>-Vincenzo Ciaschini
>-Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:07 PM
>-To: Etienne URBAH
>-Cc: aleksandr.konstantinov@fys.uio.no; edges-na3@mail.edges-grid.eu;
>-lodygens@lal.in2p3.fr; pgi-wg@ogf.org
>-Subject: Re: [Pgi-wg] OGF PGI - Security Model - NEW versions of GSI
acceptRFC-
>-3820-compliant X509 proxies
>-
>-Hi Etienne,

>-Etienne URBAH wrote:
>-> Still to be verified is that VOMS servers only accept GSI-style X509
>-> proxies http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15591?nav=1
>-VOMS accepts and generates both type of proxies.  However, there is a
>-caveat, which explains the failures you get:
>-
>-Pre VOMS 2.0:
>-Server-side, VOMS uses GSI for validation.  This means that if you run
>-voms against gt2, contacting it with a gt4 proxy will fail.
>-
>-There is a final argument in the vomses file which specifies which
>-version of GT the service uses, and adapts the proxies used to contact
>-it accordingly.  Many VOs distribute an incorrect vomses file.
>-
>-The final proxy obtained as output by voms-proxy-init will always be
>-what you requested, in this case a rfc proxy.
>-
>-VOMS 2.0 onwards:
>-Globus dependencies on the server will be dropped too (They are
>-corrently removed from both the clients and the APIs).  This will mean
>-that any kind of proxy, or even a bare certificate, will become
>-acceptable for contacting the service.  The whole vomses config business
>-above will no longer be relevant.
>-
>-VOMS 2.0 is due to be out during autumn this year.
>-
>-Ciao,
>-    Vincenzo

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