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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 245, 2020
24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2019)
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| Article Number | 04020 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | 4 - Data Organisation, Management and Access | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024504020 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024504020
Token-based authorization in StoRM WebDAV
INFN CNAF, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127 Bologna, Italy
* e-mail: andrea.ceccanti@cnaf.infn.it
Published online: 16 November 2020
At the end of May 2017 the Globus Alliance announced that the open-source Globus Toolkit (GT) would be no longer supported by the Globus team at the University of Chicago. This announcement had an obvious impact on WLCG, given the central role of the Globus Security Infrastructure (GSI) and GridFTP in the WLCG data management framework, so discussions started in the appropriate forums on the search for alternatives. At the same time, support for token-based authentication and authorization has emerged as a key requirement for storage elements powering WLCG data centers. In this contribution, we describe the work done to enable token-based authentication and authorization in the StoRM WebDAV service, describing and highlighting the differences between support for external OpenID connect providers, groupbased and capability-based authorization schemes, and locally-issued authorization tokens. We discuss how StoRM WebDAV token-based authorization is being exploited in several contexts, from WLCG DOMA activities to other scientific experiments hosted at the INFN Tier-1 data center. In this contribution, we also describe the methodology used to compare Globus GridFTP and StoRM WebDAV and we present initial results confirming how HTTP represent a viable alternative to GridFTP for data transfers also performance-wise.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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