User Certificate Application Guide

Mason Hsiung

• Visit http://ca.grid.sinica.edu.tw , start to request your user certificate

• Have a look at the requesting flow

• Read the Certificate Policy and Certificate Practice Statement

• Fill the ASGCCA User Application Form

RA Signs Here

RA Signs Here

You can decide to join EUAsia VO

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You can decide to join EUAsia VO

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• Interview with a local Registration Authority(RA)– RA will verify your identity and sign on the application form.– If you have problem on finding a local RA, please contact us directly.

(asgcca@grid.sinica.edu.tw )

• Fax this signed application form by either RA or yourself.– Then send a email to asgcca@grid.sinica.edu.tw after the faxing.

• Start to request the certificate– Create the Certificate Signing Request(CSR)

• Fill this form to send the Certificate Signing Request

• Next, ASGCCA will send a confirmation to your email address.

• Confirm your application by clicking this URL.

• Once your user certificate is issued, you will receive an email to tell you how to import the issued certificate.

• Once your user certificate is issued, you will receive an email to tell you how to import the issued certificate.

• Export your user certificate.

• Export your user certificate from Firefox.– Open ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Advanced’ -> ‘Encryption’

• Export your user certificate from Firefox.– Your Certificates -> Backup

• Export your user certificate from Firefox.– Select the backup location.

• Export your user certificate from Firefox.– Set the certificate backup password

• Convert your user certificate for the use of GRID

• Extract the ‘usercert.pem’ and ‘userkey.pem’ from certificate backup using ‘openssl’– Open the terminal

$ cd ~/.globus$ openssl pkcs12 -in xxxx.pfx(p12) -clcerts -nokeys -out usercert.pem$ openssl pkcs12 -in xxxx.pfx(p12) -nocerts -out userkey.pem$ chmod 644 usercert.pem $ chmod 400 userkey.pem

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• Join EUAsia VO, please visit https://vomrs.grid.sinica.edu.tw:8443/vomrs/euasia/vomrs– Click Registration (Phase 1) and fill the form of registration.

• Confirm the email address and finish registration– You will receive a confirmation email.

• Clicking the link in the email will bring you to the Registration (Phase II)

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• Registration (Phase II) DONE, waiting for the approval of the VO administrator via email.

• The email of the approval notification, you are now the member of EUAsia VO.

• The membership of EUAsia VO.