Workflow-based Authorization Service in Grid

  • Authors:
  • Seung-Hyun Kim;Jong Kim;Sung-Je Hong;Sangwan Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GRID '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In a distributed environment, specific rights may berequired while a task is controlled and processed. A usershould delegate enough rights to a task for processing.Tasks cannot work correctly if delegated rights areinsufficient, or security threats may occur if delegatedrights are excessive. Restricted delegation is the step thatdelegates proper rights to a task, and that enables fine-grainedauthorization in Grid. In this paper, we proposeWAS architecture as the method for supporting restricteddelegation and rights management. In contrast totraditional architecture, WAS architecture uses aworkflow that describes the sequence of rights requiredfor normal execution of a task. By using the workflow,WAS architecture is able to check whether the taskexercises allowed rights. WAS architecture isimplemented on Globus toolkit 2.0.