RucioBastion

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Introduction

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


  • 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
  • Activate the Rucio Environment with:
source /opt/rucio-env/bin/activate
  • Export variables
export RUCIO_VO=dtm
export RUCIO_ACCOUNT=root
export X509_USER_PROXY=/tmp/x509up_u<your user ID>
  • Verify that it is all set up correctly
rucio ping

or

rucio whoami

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