Federico Stagni

Seems like it's the same idea you wrote yesterday in https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/pull/6559 ...

- ReqDB stores `OwnerDN` instead of user name. This of course has an impact on several DMS operations (and Transformation.RequestTaskAgent`) - `JobDB.Jobs` has both `Owner` and `OwnerDN` for whatever reason...

The `HTCondor` option might be good for HTCondor, but of course we don't have only that use case. Storing the executable in a DB (not sure if MySQL is best...)...

> - The combination of this solution + the spool parameter for HTCondor would resolve (correct me if I am wrong) all the current problems related to this issue: no...

Given that this is not something for which we will do more development in DIRAC, I close this issue.

I don't see an obvious way out here. The problem is that the mentioned commit was necessary, IIRC, to assure the removal through RMS requests (when necessary). The question is...

Yes, this is something that are envisaging to do from 8.0 release (https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/4486) but there's anyway quite some work to be done in that direction, as DNs are quite widespread,...

After some investigation, I decided to move this issue to 8.0. There's no easy and clean way to solve this right now, as it needs #4486

Discussed briefly at today's BiLD meeting (!!). - see if they can be ditched - add deprecation warnings to the old names - change names

Basic questions: - why for py2 version 0.36 is used? - 0.38 was on pypi since January, why we discover now? https://pypi.org/project/M2Crypto/#history - https://github.com/conda-forge/m2crypto-feedstock/pull/58 was created by the conda forge...