• If you prefer not to be asked to manually select a certificate about ten times during the following steps you should reactivate the "Select one automatically" check box, which you deactivated in section II paragraph i. Nevertheless the automatic function sometimes raises trouble -- especially when the certificate manager is responsible for more than one certificate -- so it may be unavoidable to use the "Ask me every time" alternative and manually select your DFN-certificate.

• Follow the link to a list of Virtual Organisation at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Follow this link and accept the server certificate. Firefox will ask you -- depending on your configuration -- up to 10 times for your private key. Usually it is sufficient to confirm each of the questions by simply hitting "OK". The page displayed afterwards should be similar to that depicted in the figure below.
• Press the arrow button in column "Member Registration" and row "bwgrid".
• You will be led to the "bwgrid VO Registration Service" page. To show this page you have to accept another certificate and again will have to authenticate with your private key.
• Click on "Registration Phase I" in the left navigational area and the following questionaire will be displayed:
• Fill that form completely (you really have to fill all fields and have to take care that your answers are the same as those you gave in the DFN certificate application from Section I).

  Your email address has to be entered into (1), and in (2) you are supposed to select your representative, in the case of Tübingen University this is usually Werner Dilling. At the "Personal Information" paragraph you have to enter your given name (3) and surname (4) as well as your phone number, your nationality (6, e. g. Spanish), followed by the street where your workplace is situated (7, e. g. Albert-Einstein-Allee 11), the abbreviation of your faculty (8), the respective zip code (9) and corresponding place name (10) and finally the country (11) of your workplace. Pressing the "Submit" button (12) will submit the application to a server.

• After a while you will again receive an email containing a confirmation link.
• Simply follow the link provided to a page allowing you to apply to VO group memberships. Here you may only select the boxes labeled "/bwgrid" and "/bwgrid/unituebingen". Make sure that all other boxes are unchecked! Now you should take a glance at the terms of use available under the link "the Grid and VO AUPs", approve those terms by checking the corresponding box and finally submit the data.

• It may take some days before you receive two emails, one confirming your VO membership to "/bwgrid" and the second your enrollment to sub-VO "/bwgrid/unituebingen".

• Even after you have received these emails it may still take a while until the news of your membership is spread among the Grid and hence until you are actually able to use your certificate in the following section.

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