NAME

       arcslcs - ARC Credentials short-lived credential generation utility

SYNOPSIS

       arcslcs [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

       arcslcs  generates  short-lived  credential  based  on  the  credential to IdP in SAML2SSO
       profile (normally the username/password to Shibboleth IdP).

OPTIONS

       -d     level of information printed. Possible values are DEBUG,  VERBOSE,  INFO,  WARNING,
              ERROR and FATAL.

       -S     url     of     SLCS     (short-lived     credential    service)    Service.    e.g.
              https://127.0.0.1:60000/slcs

       -I     the name of IdP. e.g. https://idp.testshib.org/idp/shibboleth

       -U     user account to IdP

       -P     password for user account to IdP

       -Z     size of the private key, default is 1024

       -K     passphrase for protecting the private key, if not set, the private  key  file  will
              not be protected by passphrase

       -L     life time of the credential, starting with current time, unit is hour

       -D     store directory of the credential

       -z     configuration file of the client, default is ~/.arc/client.conf

       -h     prints short usage description

       If  not  specified  location  of  certificate, key and certificate path will be taken from
       content of environment variables X509_USER_CERT, X509_USER_KEY, if these environment  also
       have not been set, then ~/.globus will be used

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org/

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       ARC_LOCATION
              The  location  where  ARC  is  installed  can be specified by this variable. If not
              specified the install location will be determined from  the  path  to  the  command
              being  executed,  and  if  this  fails a WARNING will be given stating the location
              which will be used.

       ARC_PLUGIN_PATH
              The location of ARC plugins can be specified by this variable.  Multiple  locations
              can  be  specified  by separating them by : (; in Windows). The default location is
              $ARC_LOCATION/lib/arc (\ in Windows).

COPYRIGHT

       APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

FILES

AUTHOR

       ARC software is  developed  by  the  NorduGrid  Collaboration  (http://www.nordugrid.org),
       please  consult  the  AUTHORS  file  distributed  with ARC. Please report bugs and feature
       requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org