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1. export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus 2. cd /usr/local/globus/setup/globus 3. ./setup-simple-ca Press y to keep the default subject name. Enter the email of the CA (It must be working because all the certificate requests will be sent to this emailID). Accept the default for expiration date. passphrase: should be hard to guess, as its compromise may compromise all the certificates signed by the CA. Your passphrase must not contain any spaces. Private key is in /home/globus/.globus/simpleCA//private/cakey.pem The public CA certificate is stored in /home/globus/.globus/simpleCA//cacert.pem The distribution package built for this CA is stored in /home/globus/.globus/simpleCA//globus_simple_ca_decb74a7_setup-0.20.tar.gz This file must be distributed to any host wishing to request certificates from this CA. The number decb74a7 in the last line is known as your CA hash. It will be an 8 he...

I have used fedora core 12 for installation. 1. Download the globus toll installer from http://www.globus.org. The current version is gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2. 2. create a directory with root login mkdir /usr/local/globus Copy gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 to /usr/local/globus using the command cp gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 /usr/local/globus 2. Login as globus user and extract gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 in /usr/local/globus: chown globus:globus /usr/local/globus tar xvf gt5.0.2-all-source-installer.tar.bz2 3.Configure the installation path to /usr/local/globus/ using commands: cd gt5.0.2-all-source-installer ./configure --prefix /usr/local/globus/ This will create makefile. 4. make It will take 15-20 minutes depending on the configuration of your machine. 5. make install 6. export GLOBUS_LOCATION on terminal and add a line in ~/.bashrc : export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus-5.0.2 To setup Simple CA see next blog.