Re: [Opaltoolkit-users] Opal security question

[Luca C. <luc...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Guillermo Marco Puche
<gui...@si...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since it seems that my Opal setup is running now I’m interested in user
> authentication for web services.
>
> Is GSI globus security the only security available for Opal?
>
> I would like to maybe try out a different thing since Globus certificate
> manual pages are very confused and I was unable to set it up a few weeks
> ago.
>

If you are referring to the Web Service interface yes.
Unfortunately Opal support only GSI authentication type.

The next improvement for opal should be upgrading Axis to Axis 2.x
which will support different protocol for web service security out of
the box.
Unfortunately at the moment we don't have time to look at that.

If you are referring to the web GUI interface for that you can use
apache in front of Opal (
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html )
and then you can relay on Apache and use simple HTTP authentication
and do all sort of things (use NTLM as a source of authentication
credential).


Luca