JGridstart/Dot-globus

Globus has a convention for storing and retrieving the user's key and certificate. On unix and related systems, this is a directory ~/.globus . This page discusses the files that can be present.

• userkey.pem - the user's private key in PEM format
• usercert.pem - the user's public certificate in PEM format
• cog.properties - security properties used by Globus CoG, allows customising the others (!) CogProperties /(JavaDoc)
• certificates/ - CA certificates to replace system's location when present (also in CogProperties)

Location of ~/.globus

Unix and related: ~/.globus Windows: c:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\.globus

Links

• Globus security
  • Environment variables and locations for globus C API
• Security and Certificates on the Grid