Requesting a grid certificate using the Terena eScience Portal
The Terena eScience Portal is an effort to provide users with a tool for requesting grid-certificates using the credentials from their home-institution or university.
To request a Terena eScience Certificate go to the following URL: https://tcs-escience.sunet.se
It's vital that you DON'T use https://tcs-personal.sunet.se. This is a very similar portal, but you will not get a certificate that is usable in the grid community like DEISA, Swegrid and Swestore.
A screencast version of this instruction is available here.
The detailed procedure is as follows:
1. Click "Login"
2. If requested, click on Sweden on the map.
3. Choose your identity provider in the drop down box. This is usually your home university.
4. Login using your credentials from your identity provider (your university).
You should now arrive to a "home" page that shown below:
5. Click on the "My certificates" link in the top left side of the page. You should then arrive to a page from which you will create and manage your certificates.
6. To create a new certificate, click on the "New certificate" link. Follow the instructions, clicking next where possible (the defaults are usually OK). When the process is completed your certificate will be listed on the same page.
7. Install the signed certificate in your browser by clicking on the "Install in keystore" link. This will install the certificate in the key-store of your browser. On Mac OSX, most browsers (except Firefox) will instead offer to save the certificate file by default, and in order to use it you must import it to your keychain. You can for example do this by double clicking it in the finder.
The resulting certificate Subject or DN should at this point start with "/DC=org/DC=terena/DC=tcs/". If it starts with "/C=SE/O=YOUR SITE/" then you have the wrong type of certificate. Please make sure you use the right portal above. If the problem persists, please contact support@swegrid.se before proceeding
Exporting the Terena certificate for use with Grid tools
To use the Terena certificates with the ARC grid client they have to be exported from the browser and converted into a suitable format.
See Exporting a client certificate for detailed instructions on how to export a Terena certificate from the most popular browsers.
See Preparing a client certificate for detailed instructions on how to prepare the exported certificate for use with grid tools.
