Hi,
Yep. On its way ....
Best regards,
George
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George C. Harley
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Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-35) Harmony ignores java.security.policy
property
have a patch, maybe?
George Harley (JIRA) wrote:
> Harmony ignores java.security.policy property
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HARMONY-35
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-35
> Project: Harmony
> Type: Bug
> Components: Classlib
> Environment: Win32 and Linux
> Reporter: George Harley
>
>
> Here is the complete contents of a Java security policy file called
"mysecurity.policy" that can be used to specify additional permissions to
a JRE...
>
> ---------snip----------
>
> grant {
> // so we can remove the security manager
> permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "setSecurityManager";
> };
>
> ---------snip----------
>
> If its location is passed in the Java launch arguments with the
java.security.policy property as below then the permissions are added to
the default set of permissions that the JRE runs with ...
>
> -Djava.security.policy=c:\path\to\mysecurity.policy
>
>
> If the following unit test is run against a sandbox build of the
classlibs under SVN trunk on the IBM Apache Harmony VME with the
java.security.policy set (as above) so that the "setSecurityManager"
runtime permission is added, then a pass should result. It doesn't.
>
> -----------snip--------------
>
> package foo;
>
> import java.security.AccessControlException;
>
> import junit.framework.TestCase;
>
> public class SecurityPolicyTest extends TestCase {
>
> public void testPermissions() {
> try {
> System.out
> .println("Trying to set the security manager the
first time...");
> System.setSecurityManager(new SecurityManager());
>
> System.out.println("Trying to set the security manager to
null...");
> System.setSecurityManager(null);
> assertEquals(null, System.getSecurityManager());
> } catch (AccessControlException e) {
> fail("Caught AccessControlException : " + e.getMessage());
> }
> }
> }
>
> -----------snip--------------
>
> The failure occurs because an AccessControlException is thrown on the
second call to System.setSecurityManager() when the test tries to pass a
null argument.
>
> The problem is that after the first call to System.setSecurityManager()
has installed a security manager, there is no runtime permission to enable
the security manager to be set again. This is despite the fact that when
running the test we set the java.security.policy property to point to a
file that grants this very permission !
>
> The reason for this buggy behaviour is the incomplete implementation of
com.ibm.oti.util.DefaultPolicy in the luni component. The readPolicy()
method needs work to actually fulfill its contract as laid out in the
Javadoc comments.
>
> George
>
>
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