Secure Command Line Solution for Token-based Authentication

Autor: Dykstra Dave, Altunay Mine, Teheran Jeny
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 251, p 02036 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202125102036
Popis: The WLCG is modernizing its security infrastructure, replacing X.509 client authentication with the newer industry standard of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) obtained through the Open ID Connect (OIDC) protocol. There is a wide variety of software available using the standards, but most of it is for Web browser-based applications and doesn’t adapt well to the command line-based software used heavily in High Throughput Computing (HTC). OIDC command line client software did exist, but it did not meet our requirements for security and convenience. This paper discusses a command line solution we have made based on the popular existing secrets management software from Hashicorp called vault. We made a package called htvault-config to easily configure a vault service and another called htgettoken to be the vault client. In addition, we have integrated use of the tools into the HTCondor workload management system, although they also work well independent of HTCondor. All of the software is open source, under active development, and ready for use.
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