The Plug-in Skeleton

The federation distribution includes a functional skeletion that illustrates handling the interface calls though it does not manipulate any external testbed. It does illustrate most of the support for creating plug-ins, including reading configuration files, creating access control databases that map to local permission structures, storing persistent state and allocating local resources. The skeleton merely assigns an non-negative integer to each request. The range of integers is set from a configuration file.

This page describes how to set-up and run the skeleton plug-in, as well as what it does.

Configuration

These are the steps to configure the skeleton:

• Create a configuration directory that's readable by the user that the plugin will run as (probably your uid)
• make subdirectories in it called certs and userconf. The certs directory must be writeable.
• Copy skel.conf​ into thie configuration directory.
• Create a certificate representing a fedid in this directory.