Hi Adrian, It's a feature not a bug ;-) Now more seriously, if you detach your script from the terminal, it wont be prompted to give a password in order to create a new proxy cert (it will rather simply fail). To summarize, we check if stdin/stdout are attach to a terminal: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/master/src/XrdSecgsi/XrdSecProtocolgsi.cc#L4793-L4796 and only then we try to generate the proxy cert if it's absent, otherwise the client simply fails to authenticate. Hope that helps. Cheers, Michal ________________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Adrian Sevcenco [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 28 February 2020 10:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: xrdfs :: request for x509 proxy??? Hi! While doing an stat with xrdfs i encountered this : 200228 10:55:42 1030664 cryptossl_X509CreateProxy: Your identity: /DC=RO/DC=RomanianGRID/O=ISS/CN=Adrian SEVCENCO Enter PEM pass phrase: Why would the xrdfs ask to create proxy? Also, this happened when doing cp operation within python .. While on the issue of required or not i cannot say anything, the fact that i get a dialogue instead of a direct failure is a huge bug!!! It breaks any script that do automatic tasks or a sequence of tasks Thanks! Adrian ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1