RucioBastion
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Introduction
- The Rucio bastion server can be found at 'http://rucio-bastion.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/' you will not be able to access this without a cert / key combination or through your browser
Setting up for the first time
In order to get access to the Bastion service you must:
- Have been issued a grid certificate
- Generate an SSH key pair
- The public key then needs to be sent to Ian Johnson
- Once this is set up with your key on the server you can SSH into the server as root via:
ssh -v -i <your path to private key>.rsa root@rucio-bastion.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
- You then need to set up a new user for yourself
- Switch user to yourself
- Copy your x509 certificate (*.pfx) to the bastion into your home directory in a new directory .globus
- Unpack this certificate package using the following commands:
openssl pkcs12 -in <*.pfx> -out usercert.pem -clcerts -nokeys openssl pkcs12 -in <*.pfx> -out userkey.pem -nocerts -nodes
- Ensure that the new user owns these files, then edit the permissions of the cert to 644 and the permissions for the key to 600
- Run the command to create a proxy:
grid-proxy-init
- If you have issues here it may be necessary to run the command in debug mode:
grid-proxy-init -debug
- You will now have a grid proxy for the next 11 hours
Repeat Use
Once set up you will only need to run the following command to renew your proxy:
grid-proxy-init
Activating Rucio
When you are set up, and on the server, to use the Rucio commands, you need to activate the environment:
source /opt/Rucio-env/bin/activate