guide:Certificates/user
Before compute resources and storage resources may be requested, a valid Grid-user certificate should be requested. In D-Grid Gid-user certificates issued by the DFN-Association(http://www.dfn.de/pki/grid) or by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (http://grid.fzk.de/ca) are used. To apply for a grid-user certificate, you must contact the relevant Grid Registration Authority (grid-RA) for your institution. The following Registration Authorities of the core D-Grid partners accept certificate applications for the D-Grid project:
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ/ZAM
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT/SCC
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum München, LRZ
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, MPG
- RWTH Aachen, RWTH/RZ
- Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, PC2
- TU Dresden, TUD/ZIH
Lists of additional Grid-RAs:
If you need a grid-user certificate, check to see which of the following apply to you:
- If your institution operates a grid RA, please contact this RA.
- If you are already a user of one of the computing centers listed above. Then please contact the Registration Authority of your computing center.
- f your institution has not established a RA yet, the Grid Certificate Authorities will consult you, where you can obtain a grid user certificate. For this, please send an e-mail to zertifikate<nospam>d-grid.de.
 Important: Renewing user certificates If you want to renew an expired Grid user certificate, please be sure that the Distinguished Name (DN) of the new certificate is identical with the old one. That means that in all similar fields for the new DN have the same information as in the old one. Only then you have access with the new certificate to all Grid resources as previously. |
