EMI VOMS Documentation

VOMS is an Attribute Authority that issues attributes to users bot h in the form of X.509 Attribute Certificates and SAML Attribute Assertions. These attributes can then be used by other programs to authorize the users.

The service follows an established client-server architecture. It consists of a server (vomsd), an administration service (voms-admin), a client (voms-proxy-init) and some ancillary utilities (voms-proxy-info, voms-proxy-destroy, voms-proxy-list). After the service has been setup, users are supposed to replace use of grid-proxy-init with use of vomsproxy-init, generating a proxy certificate that while backward-compatible with the one generated by the globus command, contains extra informations about the user and the VOs he belongs to.

EMI 2

System administrator documentation

• System administrator guide
• Service reference card

User documentation

VOMS core

• VOMS User Guide and Client Installation and Configuration guide

VOMS Admin

• User guide
• Client installation and configuration (this also contains instructions on how to install the core service with YAIM)

EMI 1

System administrator documentation

• System administrator guide
• Service reference card

User documentation

VOMS core

• VOMS User Guide and Client Installation and Configuration guide

VOMS Admin

• User guide
• Client installation and configuration (this also contains instructions on how to install the core service with YAIM)

-- AndreaCeccanti - 31-Mar-2011