On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 12:58:36 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <and...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Currently, security properties are held within the `java.security` file in >> the JDK tree for each installed JDK. The system property >> `java.security.properties` can be used to point to a file containing >> additional properties. These can be appended to the existing set or override >> all existing properties. >> >> There is currently no way to specify additional properties permanently or to >> reference multiple files. Making permanent changes to the `java.security` >> properties requires editing the `java.security` file in each JDK where the >> changes are required. >> >> This patch allows a directory tree to be specified either permanently in the >> java.security file by the `security.propertiesDir` property or on the >> command line using `java.security.propertiesDir`. Any property files found >> in this directory tree can be appended to those specified in >> `java.security`, as with the single file used by `java.security.properties`. >> >> As an example, the `security.propertiesDir` in the `java.security` file of >> each JDK can be set to a common shared directory, allowing all JDKs to share >> a common set of security properties. This eases setting up properties on >> each new JDK installation and also allows the shared properties to be >> maintained under different access permissions to those of the JDK. >> >> The command-line variant, `java.security.propertiesDir`, is intended >> primarily for testing and to disable a permanent properties directory by >> setting the value to empty. As with `java.security.properties`, the system >> property will be ignored if `security.overridePropertiesFile` in the >> `java.security` file is not set to true. >> >> A less flexible version of this patch (a permanent hardcoded single file) >> has been [used in our JDK installations since >> 2016](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249083) to provide a >> system-wide crypto policy. Having support for this in the upstream JDK would >> allow us to remove a local patch from our builds and reduce divergence from >> upstream. > > Andrew John Hughes has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Sort the returned list of property files and exclude hidden files. As commented here [1], @franferrax and I have been working on a different approach to this problem. We suggest to put this PR on hold until we have our proposal ready to compare and discuss further. -- [1] - https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8309331?focusedCommentId=14606264&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-14606264 ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14277#issuecomment-1690851967
