Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.
VOMS is a system to classify users that are part of a Virtual Organization (VO) on the base of a set of attributes that will be granted to them upon request and to include that information inside Globus-compatible proxy certificates. See our VOMS documentation for more information on using VOMS system.
VOMS server requires a database. This is where the information about users and their roles/groups in the VO will be stored. By default, VOMS server will use the MySQL installation that comes with VDT ($VDT_LOCATION/mysql). The actual database that will be used is called voms_XXX where XXX is the name of the VO (determined at VOMS configuration time).
Important note: You will need to create a MySQL user and password (or assign a non-empty password to the default user root) in order to run VOMS configuration scripts. To change the password, do:
shell% ./mysql/bin/mysql -u root
mysql> set password = password("yournewpassword");
VOMS Admin application also needs access to the same database. VOMS Admin application is run through Tomcat (a simple web/servlet server), which is installed in $VDT_LOCATION/tomcat.
You will need to run two scripts after the installation of the VDT in order to create a working configuration of the VOMS server / VOMS Admin. They are: