policy file

[Hung Tang]

I am having problems starting up my server. I am using RMISecurityManager and I have gathered that you must define a policy file. I've set mine:

grant {
permission java.security.AllPermissions;
};
and saved it as policy. Its in my project directory, specifically: "C:\My Java\suncertify\db"
now i've set my classpath=.;c:\my java
Question is, what is the proper parameters to run my server specifying the policy file I've just defined? is it something along the path of
"java -Djava.security.policy="C:\My Java\suncertify\db\policy" suncertify.db.<server's class name> ?? i've tried and it didn't work... still giving me AccessException. anyone knows anything about this??

[Mark Spritzler]

That happens to everyone. I have not seen a post here yet that states them getting the RMISecurity manager with the policy file to work on the server. I ended up only having it on the client.
Mark

[Hung Tang]

mark, I seemed to got it to work when I was learning RMI the first time. Hmm... the sample program that I used to test RMI is at work, so I will go there to find what I've done to make it successful. But I guess I should take out RMISecurityManager for the server, if it doesn't violate anything (design issues??) Now I got another issue with db.db not being accessible or that it maybe non-existant when I run my server. Would you know the problem to this?

[Sri Addanki]

Hi Mark,
Hi Mark,
After reading some tutorial on RMI, i've decided to have the RMI security manager created on both client and server side like this:
System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
And i'm still getting the same error when i run the server.
access denied (java.io.FilePermission java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission db.db write)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkWrite(Unknown Source)
at java.io.File.canWrite(Unknown Source)
Do you think this error could be bcos of the db.db file?? (...and not bcos of RMI security manager) do you think db.db is inaccessible? If so what could be the reason, as such my scjd.policy file grants ALL permission.
Thanks,
Sri

[Hung Tang]

sri, i fixed my problem and I could tell you the error your getting should be related to the policy file. Make sure you have set it grant all permissions and run it with the correct parameters. ie.
java -Djava.security.policy="<path of policy file>" suncertify.db.<server app>
that should do it. Make sure you got the stubs created and rmiregistry started. If there's an error with db.db not being accessible, the problem lies in the server's class. You have to specify the FILE to be opened as a path. ie.
Data d = new Data("C:\\suncertify\\db\\db.db");
Well, this is what I did and it seemed to work.. Hopefully this will answer some of your questions.