GT 3.9.5 Component Fact Sheet: Credential Management - MyProxy

Brief overview

MyProxy is an online credential repository. You can store X.509 proxy credentials in the MyProxy repository, protected by a passphrase, for later retrieval over the network. This eliminates the need for manually copying private key and certificate files between machines. MyProxy can also be used for authentication to grid portals and credential renewal with job managers.

Summary of features

Features new in release 3.9.5

  • This is the first Globus Toolkit release that includes MyProxy.

Other Supported Features

  • Users can store and retrieve multiple X.509 proxy credentials.
  • Administrators can load the repository with X.509 end-entity credentials.
  • The myproxy-admin-adduser command integrates MyProxy with SimpleCA to create user credentials and load them into the MyProxy repository.
  • Users and administrators can set access control policies on the credentials in the repository.
  • If allowed by policy, job managers (such as Condor-G) can renew credentials before they expire.
  • The MyProxy server enforces local site passphrase policies using a configurable external call-out.

Deprecated Features

  • None

Usability summary

Usability improvements for MyProxy:

  • improvement #1
  • ...
  • improvement #n

Backward compatibility summary

Protocol changes since GT version 3.2

  • MyProxy was not included in GT 3.2.

API changes since GT version 3.2

  • MyProxy was not included in GT 3.2.

Exception changes since GT version 3.2

  • Not applicable

Schema changes since GT version 3.2

  • Not applicable

Technology dependencies

MyProxy depends on the following GT component:

  • Pre-WS Authentication and Authorization

MyProxy depends on the following 3rd party software:

  • None

Tested platforms

Tested Platforms for MyProxy

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • i686 GNU/Linux
  • ia64 GNU/Linux

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