How can I update the NorduGrid CA credentials?
The NorduGrid Certificate Authority (like any other such authority) has credentials that have a limited lifetime. Once in a while they have to be renewed and updated everywhere: on client machines, in Web browsers, on Grid servers, on Web servers etc. Users’ and host certificates can not be valid longer than the CA credentials, and hence all have to be updated as well. The steps are the following: 1. Get the latest public certificates at http://ca.nordugrid.org (section “The NorduGrid CA public certificate”). — Note: normally, the entire package is also available via NorduGrid downloads area http://ftp.nordugrid.org/download (look for IGTF, ca_NorduGrid) and yum repositories, and via IGTF site http://eugridpma.org/distribution/igtf/. 2. Install these public CA certificates in /etc/grid-security/certificates, and/or in /your-standalone-path/etc/certificates, and in your browser and mailer (eventually you will have to remove the old, expired NorduGrid CA certificates). 3. If you are a G
