Swift Notes

Swift

• Create account for user on stage.uabgrid.uab.edu.
• User can connect to stage.uabgrid.uab.edu:

  ssh stage.uabgrid.uab.edu

• You will need a UABgrid certificate
  • The link for UABgrid CA is in UABgrid Documentation.
  • Obtain an account on UABgrid first; you will have to log in to get the certificate.
• From UABgrid CA, go to "Manage Your UABgrid User Certificate."
• Download the user key and certificate. Save them to Desktop as userkey.pem and usercert.pem.
• Put the files into .globus and copy .globus to stage:

 mkdir .globus
 mv Desktop/user* .globus
 ls -lc .globus
 cd .globus 
 chmod 400 userkey.pem
 cd $HOME

• Connect to UABgrid

 grid-proxy-init

• This will bring up a request for your GRID passphrase. Enter the passphrase that was used when the private key was created.