ARGUS v.1.3.0

Release Notes

What's new

• First EMI release of the Argus Authorization Service.
• The Argus components have all been repackaged to be compliant with EMI packaging policies.
• A new thread-safe Argus PEP client library for C have been released.
• Support for the DPM/LFC banning engine have been added to the Argus PEP Server.
• Support for direct PDP XACML requests for UNICORE have been improved in the Argus PDP.
• Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Deployment notes:

• The yum emi-argus metapackage is available to install the Argus Authorization Service.
• The yaim ARGUS_server node type is used to configure the Argus Authorization Service.

Known issues

• The common EMI XACML profile is not yet finalize, and not yet implemented by the Argus service.

List of RFCs

• Argus: EMI package names and deployment directories...
• Argus: new PIP in PEPd to support DPM/LFC openssl oneline DN format
• Argus: add a PIP to validate request (subject, resource, action without empty values)
• yaim-argus: update config to enable the OpenSSL PIP for DPM/LFC
• ARGUS: PDP XACML SOAP handler sends empty HTTP error response
• Argus: PDP throws exception on missing Action or Resource
• Argus: release a thread-safe PEP client library for C (v.2)
• Argus: new GSI PEP plugin using the thread-safe PEP client v.2.0
• Argus: add a xacml_profileid config parameter for the GSI PEP callout
• Argus: PAP changes bind IP if it is configured to use localhost
• Argus: Clean up PAP package: drop tomcat war and don't repackage jar files
• Argus: Log files format (date/time, message, ...) for PAP, PDP and PEP daemon
• Argus: first authz request after service start timeout
• Argus: PAP maven project as child of argus-parent
• Argus: processing error in Argus PEP server should return INDETERMINATE decision
• Argus: Problems with gridftp + argus in EMI-RC1
• Argus: pap.pid file is written on /usr (could be ready only)
• Argus: mapping OH fails to match pool accounts which contain non alphabetic characters

Documentation

• Functional description
• System Administrator Guide
• Service Reference Card
• Product factsheet

Artifacts

Binaries
emi-argus-1.3.0-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
argus-pap-1.3.2-1.sl5.noarch.rpm
argus-pdp-1.3.0-5.sl5.noarch.rpm
argus-pep-api-c-2.0.2-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
argus-pep-api-c-devel-2.0.2-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
argus-pep-api-java-2.0.1-2.sl5.noarch.rpm
argus-pep-common-2.1.0-2.sl5.noarch.rpm
argus-pep-server-1.3.0-7.sl5.noarch.rpm
argus-pepcli-2.0.0-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
argus-gsi-pep-callout-1.2.1-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm