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Today I want to document setting a CA for my Globus project

The following work was done on "titan": [ globus@titan globus-4.0.2]$ export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus-4.0.2 [globus@titan globus-4.0.2]$ $GLOBUS_LOCATION/setup/globus/setup-simple-ca WARNING: GPT_LOCATION not set, assuming: GPT_LOCATION=/usr/local/globus-4.0.2 C e r t i f i c a t e A u t h o r i t y S e t u p This script will setup a Certificate Authority for signing Globus users certificates. It will also generate a simple CA package that can be distributed to the users of the CA. The CA information about the certificates it distributes will be kept in: /home/globus/.globus/simpleCA/ ERROR: It looks like a CA has already been setup at this location. Do you want to overwrite this CA? (y/n) [n]: y The unique subject name for this CA is: cn=Globus Simple CA, ou=simpleCA-titan, ou=GlobusTest, o=Grid Do you want to keep this as the CA subject (y/n) [y]: Enter the email of the CA (this is the email where certificate requests will be sent to