grid-ca-package1

Usage

Overview

The grid-ca-sign utility creates a tarball containing an RPM spec file and the files needed to use a CA with grid tools.

By default, the grid-ca-sign utility displays a list of installed grid CA and prompts for which CA to package. It then creates a tarball containing the CA certificate, signing policy, CA configuration files, and an spec script to generate a binary RPM package containing the CA. If the CA hash is known prior to running grid-ca-sign, it may provided as an argument to the -ca parameter to avoid prompting.

The grid-ca-sign utility writes the package tarballs to the current working directory.

Options

The full set of command-line options to grid-ca-sign follows:

-help, -h, -usage

Display the command-line options to grid-ca-sign and exit.

-version, -versions

Display the version number of the grid-ca-sign command. The second form includes more details.

-ca CA

Use the CA whose name matches the hash string CA. When invoked with this option, grid-ca-sign runs non-interactively.

-r

Create a binary RPM package for the CA. This option currently only works on RPM-based distributions.

-d

Create a binary Debian package for the CA. This option currently only works on Debian-based distributions.

Examples

Package a Simple CA with hash 0146c503.

% grid-ca-sign -ca 0146c503

Creating RPM source tarball... done
globus_simple_ca_0146c503.tar.gz

Environment

The following environment variables affect the execution of grid-ca-sign:

GLOBUS_LOCATION