2.1. Managing credentials: username/password authentication

For username/password authentication, a password file must be configured for mdtmFTP server.

2.1.1. On the server side

On each host that runs mdtmFTP server, create a password file by using globus-gridftp-password:

$ /opt/mdtmftp/sbin/globus-gridftp-password > /etc/mdtm/password
Password:

Enter a password at the prompt. It will ask for a password for the currently logged-in user. Assuming that the currently logged-in user is mdtmftp, it will create a line like below in /etc/mdtm/password:

mdtmftp:c1CvYmpprfOpc:1014:1015::/home/mdtmftp:/bin/bash

You can also set up passwords for other users. First, ask them to run the command:

$ /opt/mdtmftp/sbin/globus-gridftp-password > ~/mdtm-password

They will need to enter a password at the prompt, and send the resulting file ~/mdtm-password to you. Afterward, you need append their username/password line to /etc/mdtm/password.

Note: root is not allowed as username.

Once the necessary configuration files are in place, test the mdtmFTP server:

$ /opt/mdtmftp/sbin/mdtm-ftp-server \
     -p 5001 \
     -password-file /etc/mdtm/password \
     -c /etc/mdtm/server.conf \
     -log-level all

2.1.2. On the client side

Assume that a user mdtmftp with password 123456 has been configured on the server side. To submit a data transfer job using this username and password, run mdtmFTP client like:

$ /opt/mdtm/bin/mdtm-ftp-client -p 8 \
   ftp://mdtmftp:123456@dtn-a.example.net:5001/data1/100G/file1 \
   file:///storage/data1/tmp/

More example are in Authentication method: username and password.