# Re: Again: Trusted applets in generic browsers !

Charlie Lai (Charlie.Lai@Eng)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:48:13 -0800 (PST)

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    From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)

    Message-Id: <199803312348.PAA14907@angeles.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: Again: Trusted applets in generic browsers !

    To: Andrea.Mongillo@sbsitalia.it (Andrea Mongillo)

    Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:48:13 -0800 (PST)

    In-Reply-To: <001201bd491a$ca5d6e60$7b37c596@tl2nt2.tl2dom> from "Andrea Mongillo" at Mar 6, 98 05:12:59 pm

hi,

> First of all, thank you very much for your immediate help.
> I downloaded activator but I had some problems to let it work with signed
> applets: it didn't work until I specified the "identitydb.obj" path into my
> "java.security" file. In the activator documentation, infact, I found
> default directories that didn't work in reality.
> The question in a few words is:
> How can I put an "identitydb.obj" file on my customers PC (Win95 and WinNT),
> so that signed applet can be trusted even if they won't install JDK 1.1.x
> (in this case they shouldn't have a "java.security" file) ?

apparently end users have two ways to create their identitydb.obj file:

You can do this either by having each user run the javakey utility
to create or update their own identitydb.obj file, or you might chose to
create a standard identitydb.obj file and then simply ask your users to copy
that file onto their systems.

The identitydb.obj file is in the user's Java home directory.
With Project Java Activator EA3 the locations are:

On Windows NT, in the user's personal profile directory.
This is typically C:/winnt/profiles/user/personal/identitydb.obj
Note that this file location is likely to change in EA3.

On Windows 95, in C:\Program Files\Activator_EA2\identitydb.obj
Note that this file location is likely to change in EA3.

On Unix systems in ~/identitydb.obj

i got that from the activator documentation from the developer's connection.
you can contact the activator folks for more detailed information at:
activator-interest@java.sun.com

hope that helps,
charlie

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