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Classical authentication and authorization in grid environments can become a user management issue due to the flat nature of credentials based on X.509 certificates. While such credentials are able to identify user affiliations, such systems typically leave out a crucial aspect in user management and resource allocation: privilege levels. Shibboleth-based authentication mechanisms facilitate the secure communication of such user attributes within a trust federation. This paper describes a role-based access control framework that exploits Shibboleth attribute handling and CAS (Community Authorization Services) within a Grid environment. Users are able obtain appropriate access levels to resources outside of their domain on the basis of their native privileges and resource policies. This paper describes our framework and discusses issues of security and manageability.
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Gao, F., Tan, J. (2011). Shibboleth and Community Authorization Services: Enabling Role-Based Grid Access. In: Xiang, Y., Cuzzocrea, A., Hobbs, M., Zhou, W. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24669-2_13
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