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<h1 class="title">netCDF Authorization Support</h1>
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<div class="subtitle">
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<h1>Author: Dennis Heimbigner</h1>
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<h1>Address: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/dmh/</h1>
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<h1>Draft: 11/21/2014</h1>
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<h1>Last Revised: 10/24/2015</h1>
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</div>
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<h1 class="toc">Table of Contents</h1>
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<ol>
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<li> <a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a>
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<li> <a href="#URL-AUTH">URL-Based Authentication</a>
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<li> <a href="#DODSRC">RC File Authentication</a>
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<li> <a href="#REDIR">Redirection-Based Authentication</a>
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<li> <a href="#URLCONS">URL Constrained RC File Entries</a>
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<li> <a href="#CLIENTCERTS">Client-Side Certificates</a>
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<li> <a href="#allkeys">Appendix A. All RC-File Keys</a>
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<li> <a href="#ESGDETAIL">Appendix B. ESG Access in Detail</a>
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</ol>
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<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
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netCDF can support user authorization using the facilities provided by the curl
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library. This includes basic password authentication as well as
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certificate-based authorization.
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<p>
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At the moment, this document only applies to DAP2 and DAP4 access
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because they are (for now) the only parts of the netCDF-C library
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that uses libcurl.
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<p>
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With some exceptions (e.g. see the section on <a href="#REDIR">redirection</a>)
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The libcurl authorization mechanisms can be accessed in two ways
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<ol>
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<li> Inserting the username and password into the url, or
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<li> Accessing information from a so-called <i>rc</i> file named either
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<i>.daprc</i> or <i>.dodsrc</i>
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</ol>
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<h2><a name="URL-AUTH">URL-Based Authentication</a></h2>
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For simple password based authentication, it is possible to
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directly insert the username and the password into a url in this form.
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<pre>
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http://username:password@host/...
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</pre>
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This username and password will be used if the server asks for
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authentication. Note that only simple password authentication
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is supported in this format.
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Specifically note that <a href="#REDIR">redirection</a> based
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authorization will not work with this because the username and password
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will only be used on the initial request, not the redirection
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<h2><a name="DODSRC">RC File Authentication</a></h2>
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The netcdf library supports an <i>rc</i> file mechanism to allow the passing
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of a number of parameters to libnetcdf and libcurl.
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<p>
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The file must be called one of the following names:
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".daprc" or ".dodsrc"
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If both .daprc and .dodsrc exist, then
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the .daprc file will take precedence.
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<p>
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The rc file is searched for first in the current directory
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and then in the home directory (as defined by the HOME environment
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variable).
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<p>
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The rc file format is a series of lines of the general form:
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<pre>
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[<host:port>]<key>=<value>
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</pre>
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where the bracket-enclosed host:port is optional and will be discussed
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subsequently.
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<p>
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The currently defined set of authorization-related keys are as follows.
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The second column is the affected curl_easy_setopt option(s), if any.
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<table>
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<tr><th>Key<th>Affected curl_easy_setopt Options<th>Notes
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<tr><td>HTTP.COOKIEJAR<td>CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
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<tr><td>HTTP.COOKIEFILE<td>CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR<td>Alias for CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
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<tr><td>HTTP.PROXY_SERVER<td>CURLOPT_PROXY, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE<td>CURLOPT_SSLCERT
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.KEY<td>CURLOPT_SSLKEY
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.KEYPASSWORD<td>CURLOPT_KEYPASSWORD
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CAINFO<td>CURLOPT_SSLCAINFO
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CAPATH<td>CURLOPT_SSLCAPATH
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.VERIFYPEER<td>CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.VALIDATE<td>CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
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<tr><td>HTTP.CREDENTIALS.USERPASSWORD<td>CURLOPT_USERPASSWORD
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<tr><td>HTTP.NETRC<td>N.A.<td>Specify path of the .netrc file
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</table>
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</ul>
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<h3>Password Authentication</h3>
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The key
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HTTP.CREDENTIALS.USERPASSWORD
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can be used to set the simple password authentication.
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This is an alternative to setting it in the url.
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The value must be of the form "username:password".
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See <a href="#REDIR">redirection authorization</a>
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for important additional information.
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<h3>Cookie Jar</h3>
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The HTTP.COOKIEJAR key
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specifies the name of file from which
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to read cookies (CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR) and also
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the file into which to store cookies (CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE).
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The same value is used for both CURLOPT values.
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It defaults to in-memory storage.
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See <a href="#REDIR">redirection authorization</a>
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for important additional information.
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<h3>Certificate Authentication</h3>
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HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE
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specifies a file path for a file containing a PEM cerficate.
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This is typically used for client-side authentication.
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<p>
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HTTP.SSL.KEY is essentially the same as HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE
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and should always have the same value.
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<p>
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HTTP.SSL.KEYPASSWORD
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specifies the password for accessing the HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICAT/HTTP.SSL.key file.
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<p>
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HTTP.SSL.CAPATH
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specifies the path to a directory containing
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trusted certificates for validating server sertificates.
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<p>
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HTTP.SSL.VALIDATE
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is a boolean (1/0) value that if true (1)
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specifies that the client should verify the server's presented certificate.
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<p>
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HTTP.PROXY_SERVER
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specifies the url for accessing the proxy:
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e.g. <i>http://[username:password@]host[:port]</i>
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<p>
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HTTP.NETRC
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specifies the absolute path of the .netrc file.
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See <a href="#REDIR">redirection authorization</a>
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for information about using .netrc.
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<h2><a name="REDIR">Redirection-Based Authentication</a> </h2>
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Some sites provide authentication by using a third party site
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to do the authentication. Examples include ESG and URS.
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<p>
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The process is usually as follows.
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<ol>
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<li>The client contacts the server of interest (SOI), the actual data provider
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using, typically http protocol.
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<li>The SOI sends a redirect to the client to connect to the e.g. URS system
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using the 'https' protocol (note the use of https instead of http).
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<li>The client authenticates with URS.
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<li>URS sends a redirect (with authorization information) to send
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the client back to the SOI to actually obtain the data.
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</ol>
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<p>
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It turns out that libcurl uses the password in the .daprc file — or from the url —
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only for the initial connection. This causes problems because
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the redirected connection is the one that actually requires the password.
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This is where .netrc comes in. Libcurl will use .netrc for
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the redirected connection. It is possible to cause libcurl to use
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the .daprc password always, but this introduces a security hole
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because it may send the initial user+pwd to the redirection site.
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In summary, if you are using redirection, then you must create a .netrc
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file to hold the password for the site to which the redirection is sent.
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<p>
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The format of this .netrc file will contain content that
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typically look like this.
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<pre>
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machine mmmmmm login xxxxxx password yyyyyy
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</pre>
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where the machine, mmmmmm, is the hostname of the machine to
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which the client is redirected for authorization, and the
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login and password are those needed to authenticate on that machine.
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<p>
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The .netrc file can be specified by
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putting the following line in your .daprc/.dodsrc file.
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<pre>
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HTTP.NETRC=<path to netrc file>
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</pre>
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<p>
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One final note. In using this, it is almost certain that you will
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need to specify a real cookie jar file (HTTP.COOKIEJAR) so that the
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redirect site can pass back authorization information.
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<h2><a name="URLCONS">URL Constrained RC File Entries</a></h2>
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Each line of the rc file can begin with
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a host+port enclosed in square brackets.
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The form is "host:port".
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If the port is not specified
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then the form is just "host".
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The reason that more of the url is not used is that
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libcurl's authorization grain is not any finer than host level.
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<p>
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Examples.
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<pre>
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[remotetest.unidata.ucar.edu]HTTP.VERBOSE=1
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or
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[fake.ucar.edu:9090]HTTP.VERBOSE=0
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</pre>
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If the url request from, say, the <i>netcdf_open</i> method
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has a host+port matching one of the prefixes in the rc file, then
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the corresponding entry will be used, otherwise ignored.
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<p>
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For example, the URL
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<pre>
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http://remotetest.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/testdata/testData.nc
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</pre>
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will have HTTP.VERBOSE set to 1.
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<p>
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Similarly,
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<pre>
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http://fake.ucar.edu:9090/dts/test.01
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</pre>
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will have HTTP.VERBOSE set to 0.
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<h2><a name="CLIENTCERTS">Client-Side Certificates</a></h2>
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Some systems, notably ESG (Earth System Grid), requires
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the use of client-side certificates, as well as being
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<a href="#REDIR">re-direction based</a>.
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This requires setting the following entries:
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<ul>
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<li>HTTP.COOKIEJAR — a file path for storing cookies across re-direction.
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<li>HTTP.NETRC — the path to the netrc file.
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<li>HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE — the file path for the client side certificate file.
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<li>HTTP.SSL.KEY — this should have the same value as HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE.
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<li>HTTP.SSL.CAPATH — the path to a "certificates" directory.
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<li>HTTP.SSL.VALIDATE — force validation of the server certificate.
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</ul>
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Note that the first two are to support re-direction based authentication.
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<h1 class="appendix><a name="allkeys">Appendix A. All RC-File Keys</a></h1>
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For completeness, this is the list of all rc-file keys.
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If this documentation is out of date with respect to the actual code,
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the code is definitive.
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<table>
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<tr><th>Key<th>curl_easy_setopt Option
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<tr valign="top"><td>HTTP.DEFLATE<td>CUROPT_DEFLATE<br>with value "deflate,gzip"
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<tr><td>HTTP.VERBOSE <td>CUROPT_VERBOSE
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<tr><td>HTTP.TIMEOUT<td>CUROPT_TIMEOUT
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<tr><td>HTTP.USERAGENT<td>CUROPT_USERAGENT
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<tr><td>HTTP.COOKIEJAR<td>CUROPT_COOKIEJAR
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<tr><td>HTTP.COOKIE_JAR<td>CUROPT_COOKIEJAR
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<tr valign="top"><td>HTTP.PROXY_SERVER<td>CURLOPT_PROXY,<br>CURLOPT_PROXYPORT,<br>CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE<td>CUROPT_SSLCERT
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.KEY<td>CUROPT_SSLKEY
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.KEYPASSWORD<td>CUROPT_KEYPASSWORD
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CAINFO<td>CUROPT_SSLCAINFO
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.CAPATH<td>CUROPT_SSLCAPATH
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<tr><td>HTTP.SSL.VERIFYPEER<td>CUROPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
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<tr><td>HTTP.CREDENTIALS.USERPASSWORD<td>CUROPT_USERPASSWORD
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<tr><td>HTTP.NETRC<td>CURLOPT_NETRC,CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE
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</table>
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</ul>
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<h1 class="appendix"><a name="URSDETAIL">Appendix B. URS Access in Detail</a></h1>
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It is possible to use the NASA Earthdata Login System (URS)
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with netcdf by using using the process specified in the
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<a href="#REDIR">redirection</a> based authorization section.
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In order to access URS controlled datasets, however, it is necessary to
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register as a user with NASA at the
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<i>https://uat.urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/</i>
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website.
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<h1 class="appendix"><a name="ESGDETAIL">Appendix C. ESG Access in Detail</a></h1>
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It is possible to access Earth Systems Grid (ESG) datasets
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from ESG servers through the netCDF API using the techniques
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described in the section on <a href="#CLIENTCERTS">Client-Side Certificates</a>.
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<p>
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In order to access ESG datasets, however, it is necessary to
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register as a user with ESG and to setup your environment
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so that proper authentication is established between an netcdf
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client program and the ESG data server. Specifically, it
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is necessary to use what is called "client-side keys" to
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enable this authentication. Normally, when a client accesses
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a server in a secure fashion (using "https"), the server
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provides an authentication certificate to the client.
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With client-side keys, the client must also provide a
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certificate to the server so that the server can know with
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whom it is communicating.
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<p>
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The netcdf library uses the <i>curl</i> library and it is that
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underlying library that must be properly configured.
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<h3>Terminology</h3>
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The key elements for client-side keys requires the constructions of
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two "stores" on the client side.
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<ul>
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<li> Keystore - a repository to hold the client side key.
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<li> Truststore - a repository to hold a chain of certificates
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that can be used to validate the certificate
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sent by the server to the client.
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</ul>
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The server actually has a similar set of stores, but the client
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need not be concerned with those.
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<h3>Initial Steps</h3>
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The first step is to obtain authorization from ESG.
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Note that this information may evolve over time, and
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may be out of date.
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This discussion is in terms of BADC and NCSA. You will need
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to substitute as necessary.
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<ol>
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<li> Register at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/register
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to obtain access to badc and to obtain an openid,
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which will looks something like:
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<pre>https://ceda.ac.uk/openid/Firstname.Lastname</pre>
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<li> Ask BADC for access to whatever datasets are of interest.
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<p>
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<li> Obtain short term credentials at
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http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/myproxy/MyProxyLogon/
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You will need to download and run the MyProxyLogon
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program.
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This will create a keyfile in, typically, the directory ".globus".
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The keyfile will have a name similar to this: "x509up_u13615"
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The other elements in ".globus" are certificates to use in
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validating the certificate your client gets from the server.
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<p>
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<li> Obtain the program source ImportKey.java
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from this location: http://www.agentbob.info/agentbob/79-AB.html
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(read the whole page, it will help you understand the remaining steps).
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</ol>
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<h3>Building the KeyStore</h3>
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You will have to modify the keyfile in the previous step
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and then create a keystore and install the key and a certificate.
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The commands are these:
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<pre>
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openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in x509up_u13615 -inform PEM -out key.der -outform DER
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openssl x509 -in x509up_u13615 -inform PEM -out cert.der -outform DER
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java -classpath <path to ImportKey.class> -Dkeypassword="<password>" -Dkeystore=./<keystorefilename> key.der cert.der
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</pre>
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Note, the file names "key.der" and "cert.der" can be whatever you choose.
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It is probably best to leave the .der extension, though.
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<h3>Building the TrustStore</h3>
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Building the truststore is a bit tricky because as provided, the
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certificates in ".globus" need some massaging. See the script below
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for the details. The primary command is this, which is executed for every
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certificate, c, in globus. It sticks the certificate into the file
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named "truststore"
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<pre>
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keytool -trustcacerts -storepass "password" -v -keystore "truststore" -importcert -file "${c}"
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</pre>
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<h3>Running the C Client</h3>
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Refer to the section on <a href="#CLIENTCERTS">Client-Side Certificates</a>.
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The keys specified there must be set in the rc file to support
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ESG access.
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<ul>
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<li> HTTP.COOKIEJAR=~/.dods_cookies
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<li> HTTP.NETRC=~/.netrc
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<li> HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE=~/esgkeystore
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<li> HTTP.SSL.KEY=~/esgkeystore
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<li> HTTP.SSL.CAPATH=~/.globus
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<li> HTTP.SSL.VALIDATE=1
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</ul>
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Of course, the file paths above are suggestions only;
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you can modify as needed.
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The HTTP.SSL.CERTIFICATE and HTTP.SSL.KEY
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entries should have same value, which is the file path for the
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certificate produced by MyProxyLogon. The HTTP.SSL.CAPATH entry
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should be the path to the "certificates" directory produced by
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MyProxyLogon.
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<p>
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As noted, also uses re-direction based authentication.
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So, when it receives an initial connection from a client, it
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redirects to a separate authentication server. When that
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server has authenticated the client, it redirects back to
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the original url to complete the request.
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<h3>Script for creating Stores</h3>
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The following script shows in detail how to actually construct the key
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and trust stores. It is specific to the format of the globus file
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as it was when ESG support was first added. It may have changed
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since then, in which case, you will need to seek some help
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in fixing this script. It would help if you communicated
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what you changed to the author so this document can be updated.
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<pre>
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#!/bin/sh -x
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KEYSTORE="esgkeystore"
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TRUSTSTORE="esgtruststore"
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GLOBUS="globus"
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TRUSTROOT="certificates"
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CERT="x509up_u13615"
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TRUSTROOTPATH="$GLOBUS/$TRUSTROOT"
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CERTFILE="$GLOBUS/$CERT"
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PWD="password"
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D="-Dglobus=$GLOBUS"
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CCP="bcprov-jdk16-145.jar"
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CP="./build:${CCP}"
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JAR="myproxy.jar"
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# Initialize needed directories
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rm -fr build
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mkdir build
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rm -fr $GLOBUS
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mkdir $GLOBUS
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rm -f $KEYSTORE
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rm -f $TRUSTSTORE
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# Compile MyProxyCmd and ImportKey
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javac -d ./build -classpath "$CCP" *.java
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javac -d ./build ImportKey.java
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# Execute MyProxyCmd
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java -cp "$CP myproxy.MyProxyCmd
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# Build the keystore
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openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in $CERTFILE -inform PEM -out key.der -outform DER
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openssl x509 -in $CERTFILE -inform PEM -out cert.der -outform DER
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java -Dkeypassword=$PWD -Dkeystore=./${KEYSTORE} -cp ./build ImportKey key.der cert.der
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# Clean up the certificates in the globus directory
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for c in ${TRUSTROOTPATH}/*.0 ; do
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alias=`basename $c .0`
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sed -e '0,/---/d' <$c >/tmp/${alias}
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echo "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" >$c
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cat /tmp/${alias} >>$c
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done
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# Build the truststore
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for c in ${TRUSTROOTPATH}/*.0 ; do
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alias=`basename $c .0`
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echo "adding: $TRUSTROOTPATH/${c}"
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echo "alias: $alias"
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yes | keytool -trustcacerts -storepass "$PWD" -v -keystore ./$TRUSTSTORE -alias $alias -importcert -file "${c}"
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done
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exit
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