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CDS 1.2 Developers Guide
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The Credential Delegation Service (CDS) is a Grid service that allows users and services to delegate their credentials to one another such that they may act on one another's behalf. Delegation is essential in enabling single sign on, workflow, and distributed queries. This purpose of this guide is provide developers with the information they need to programmatically interact with the CDS.