# Re: question on policies

Charlie Lai (charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:52:10 -0800 (PST)

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    From: charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com (Charlie Lai)

    Message-Id: <199901262352.PAA15540@angeles.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: question on policies

    To: michael.mcmahon@Sun.COM (Michael Mc Mahon)

    Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:52:10 -0800 (PST)

    In-Reply-To: <369E6401.1FAB0C55@sun.com> from "Michael Mc Mahon" at Jan 14, 99 09:39:14 pm

> I have a question about security policies (Java 2). Has any work
> been done to simplify the job of setting up security policies
> for naive users? I am thinking of either a more high-level
> tool than 'policytool' which would use a wizard type
> of approach for configuring the policy, or else a set of
> standard policy profiles with a description of when/how they
> might be used.

in the future releases of the JDK, we will work to
improve the usability of the security features.
this does include a new policytool which would be more,
as you put it, wizard-like.

thanks for the input,
charlie

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