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Authentication with external serivices

This document explains how DIRAC and DiracX communicate with external services like storage and compute elements.

Job submission

sequenceDiagram autonumber participant IAM as VO IdP participant CE as Computing Element participant DX as DiracX participant P as Pilot Agent rect Pilot submission DX->>IAM: Client secret flow IAM->>DX: WLCG token with compute scopes DX->>CE: Authenticate with WLCG token<br />Include unique DiracX secret with pilot payload end rect DiracX Pilot Startup Phase CE->>P: Start pilot job end

Data access

User clients

Jobs

File Transfer Service