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Authentication and Delegation
If you are doing a lot of scripting connecting to a Mediaflux remote, it is undesirable to populate lots of plain text files with your login details. This is where delegation becomes useful. Delegate credentials are binary tokens that reside in the home directory of the user that creates them. These credentials automatically perform a login on your behalf when interacting with Pawsey data storage. Here's an example of creating a delegate credential that lasts for approximately one month:
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pawsey:/projects>delegate 30
Delegating until: 01-Jun-2016 14:13:15
pawsey:/projects>exit |
From now on, until the delegate expires, there is no need to login to data storage on the machine where this was run. Any pshell sessions that are run will automatically use the delegate to login.
Finally, to destroy all delegate credentials, use:
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pawsey:/projects>delegate off
Delegate credentials removed. |
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| title | Renewing the delegate token before it expires |
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