[gridsam-discuss] GridSAM to Globus: automatically maintaing the GridSAM proxy

[Garry S. <gar...@co...>]

Hi William,

GridSAM v1 with jobmanager configured to a NGS job manager.

On the GridSAM server:

1.
~/bin/OMIICLIENT2_3_0/OMIICLIENT/gridsam/bin/myproxy -l machineA host 
myproxy.grid-support.ac.uk put
Enter MyProxy Pass Phrase:
A proxy valid for 168 hours (7 days) for user machineA now exists on 
myproxy.grid-support.ac.uk.

2.
~/bin/OMIICLIENT2_3_0/OMIICLIENT/gridsam/bin/myproxy -l machineA -host 
myproxy.grid-support.ac.uk get
Enter MyProxy Pass Phrase:
A proxy has been received for user machineA in ./x509up_40827.pem

I would like to automate this task using a cron job.

Questions:

i. What is the recommended way to read the passphrase (i.e. with out a user 
present to insert the passphrase)?

ii. I want the returned proxy to have the same name each time it is returned.  
What is the recommended way to achieve this?

My cog.properties already contains the following line (but with no effect):
proxy=/tmp/x509up_u1000

Thanks
Garry