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Perhaps it would be useful to invite Arla to the next meeting to discuss this issue and also procedures for requesting full SLAC accounts for remote Atlas users (and procedures for getting their initial passwords to them). On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 at 12:58 [-0700], Su, Dong wrote: > > One more item I forgot to bring up but still hit by confusing E-mail > regularly is the GRID certificate sponsorship. It was a really confusing > process for a long time as the web instructions were an eternal maze, > so that I created some instructions in the SLAC ATLAS page for it > together with the CERN/BNL account page. There has been a great deal of > disgust elsewhere too which finally bubbled through and something was > done on the US ATLAS web page: > http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/twiki/bin/view/Support/UserGrid > which may be a useful resource which could be place prominently in Wei's > T2 grid User page or new comers. In the process of requesting the GRID > certificate, it will ask eventually for the sponsor. Richard used to be > the sponsor through PPDG but that has terminated. So the new arrangement > is that Arla Lecount will be the official sponsor for OSG/SLAC. I am not > sure how this is supposed to work for our users which is another confusion > which is worth clarifying before hand. We should also offer the certificate > sponsorship to all WT2 users ? In any case, what to put in the request > for sponsor probably should be clearly stated in our web page. Arla also > requested to make sure all E-mail requests for certificates using SLAC as a > sponsor be sent from the SLAC user account to ease the trace back. > > Su Dong >