The local centre mapping service (lcmaps) is a security middleware component that processes the users grid credentials (typically x.509 proxy certificates and voms attributes) and maps the user to a local account based on the site local policy.

it is a highly configurable pluggable interface, and many plugins are available to tailor almost every need. since this is middleware, it does not interact with the user directly; to use it in a program please see the lcmaps-interface package.

this package contains an implementation without gsi protocol support.