After retrieving your signed certificate you must first export your certificate from your web browser before you can use it with Globus. See the links on the left for details on how to export your certificate from your web browser.

Once your certificate and private key are exported from your browser you may find the following Globus GSI tools useful:

Note: Before using these tools it is helpful to make sure that the environment variable GLOBUS_LOCATION is defined, and then execute

source $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-user-env.sh

source $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-user-env.csh

• grid-proxy-init

  Use this command to generate a proxy certificate which clients and services can use for authentication on your behalf.

• grid-proxy-destroy

  Use this command to delete a proxy certificate previously created using grid-proxy-init.

• grid-proxy-info -all
  

  Use this command to view details about an existing proxy certificate generated using grid-proxy-init.

• grid-cert-info -all

  Use this command to view details about your DOEGrids certificate.