# Re: "java.security" file

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:54:02 -0800 (PST)

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Alex:

You can specify system-wide policy files (other than the
default) in your security property file, which is located
in jre/lib/security/java.security.

Each policy file is specified as a security property
of the form

policy.url.<n>=<url_of_policy_file>,
where <n> is a counter whose value starts at 1.

Each policy file is referenced as a URL and can therefore be
managed centrally on a server.

Jan

> We are planning to distribute a client-server system that makes use of rmi
> and the jre1.2 plug-in. We are, however, having difficulty locating
> documentation on how to specify the location of the default "java.security"
> file, normally located at
> java.home\lib\security\java.security
>
> We would like to specify this as a url so that we do not have to modify the
> securiy file on every client machine that uses the applet based program.
> We hope that we would be able to specify this once for the entire lan and
> that it could be under the control of the systems administrator. The
> default location on the hard disk of the client machine is both
> inconvenient and prone to modification by individual users. Can our
> preferred file location be specified on installation of the plug-in or in
> another simple manner?
>
> Regards
>
>
> Alex Amies
>
>
>

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