The ability to use sshd to provide secure authentication for GridFTP is new in the
Globus 4.1.2 development release.
You do not need to install all of Globus to use GridFTP.
Here is a 'quick start guide' to install GridFTP with ssh support only (i.e.: no X509 support).
Do these steps on both the client and server hosts.
wget http://www-unix.globus.org/ftppub/gt4/4.1.3/installers/src/gt4.1.3-all-source-installer.tar.gz
tar xvfz gt4.1.3-all-source-installer.tar.gz
cd gt4.1.3-all-source-installer
./configure --prefix /path/to/install (ignore any java/ant warnings)
make gridftp install (and wait a LONG time. Very slow to build)
Then do the following (both client and server hosts):
setenv GLOBUS_LOCATION /path/to/install
source $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-user-env.csh
On client hosts:
$GLOBUS_LOCATION/setup/globus/setup-globus-gridftp-sshftp
On server hosts (run as root):
$GLOBUS_LOCATION/setup/globus/setup-globus-gridftp-sshftp -server
or (non-root option)
$GLOBUS_LOCATION/setup/globus/setup-globus-gridftp-sshftp -server -nonroot
The GridFTP server is now automatically launched via sshd. Here are some sample commands:
# directory listing
globus-url-copy -list sshftp://gridhost.foo.gov/tmp/
# copy file /etc/group
globus-url-copy sshftp://gridhost.foo.gov/etc/group file:/tmp/group
# parallel transfer of file /tmp/mybigdatafile
globus-url-copy -p 4 sshftp://gridhost.foo.gov/tmp/mybigdatafile file:/tmp/myfile
# test network throughput
globus-url-copy -vb -p 4 -tcp-bs 16M sshftp://gridhost.lbl.gov/dev/zero sshftp://myhost.bar.gov/dev/null
More information on configuring and running GridFTP.
