Other Notes

Grid Certificates, Robotic Certificates

Using encoded tarballs

If given an encoded tarball use the following command

openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in filename.tgz.enc | tar zxf -

Removing a password

In the case of a Robotic Certificate, a password on the key will stop programs which use it so the password must be removed. Just use:

openssl rsa -in password-keyfile.pem -out passwordless-keyfile.pem

It will ask for the password on the old file, and you can skip entering one for the new file.

Updating certificates CA directory

I've typically had to update the local copy of our CA certificate folder by grabbing the one at CERN: lxplus.cern.ch:/etc/grid-security/certificates and copying it locally. Otherwise you get errors from voms-proxy-init.

Testing Success

To test the robotic key/cert you can do the following:

voms-proxy-init --cert </path/to/cert.pem> --key </path/to/key.pem> --certdir </path/to/certificates> -verify