I am a new Tomcat user.
I installed Tomcat 5.5 for use within IBM RAD/Eclipse runtime environment.
My goal is to find out how J2EE container managed (form based) security
works in Tomcat.
I started off by creating a JSF page, PH001, in the WebContect. No
security entry is specified in the web.xml file yet. I was able to run
and display the page.
Then I tried to check the Server Security Enable box and restart Tomcat to
run the same JSF page. I got the following exception:
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: Access denied
(java.util.PropertyPermission
org.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER read)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(
AccessController.java:104)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(
SecurityManager.java:547)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(
SecurityManager.java:1300)
at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:369)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.<clinit>(
BodyContentImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:177)
... 64 more
The default catalalina.policy file in the server is appended below : What
update do I need in the file to bypass the exception ? Thank you in
advance for any help.
//
============================================================================
// catalina.corepolicy - Security Policy Permissions for Tomcat 5
//
// This file contains a default set of security policies to be enforced
(by the
// JVM) when Catalina is executed with the "-security" option. In
addition
// to the permissions granted here, the following additional permissions
are
// granted to the codebase specific to each web application:
//
// * Read access to the document root directory
//
// $Id: catalina.policy 393732 2006-04-13 06:32:25Z pero $
//
============================================================================
// ========== SYSTEM CODE PERMISSIONS
=========================================
// These permissions apply to javac
grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/lib/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to all shared system extensions
grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/jre/lib/ext/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to javac when ${java.home] points at
$JAVA_HOME/jre
grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/../lib/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to all shared system extensions when
// ${java.home} points at $JAVA_HOME/jre
grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/lib/ext/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// ========== CATALINA CODE PERMISSIONS
=======================================
// These permissions apply to the launcher code
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/commons-launcher.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the daemon code
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/commons-daemon.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the commons-logging API
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/commons-logging-api.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the server startup code
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/bootstrap.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the JMX server
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/jmx.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to JULI
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the servlet API classes
// and those that are shared across all class loaders
// located in the "common" directory
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/common/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// These permissions apply to the container's core code, plus any
additional
// libraries installed in the "server" directory
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/server/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// The permissions granted to the balancer WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib
directory
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/balancer/-" {
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission
"accessClassInPackage.org.apache.tomcat.util.digester";
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission
"accessClassInPackage.org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.*";
};
// ========== WEB APPLICATION PERMISSIONS
=====================================
// These permissions are granted by default to all web applications
// In addition, a web application will be given a read FilePermission
// and JndiPermission for all files and directories in its document root.
grant {
// Required for JNDI lookup of named JDBC DataSource's and
// javamail named MimePart DataSource used to send mail
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.home", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.naming.*", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "javax.sql.*", "read";
// OS Specific properties to allow read access
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.name", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.arch", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "file.separator", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "path.separator", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "line.separator", "read";
// JVM properties to allow read access
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vendor", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vendor.url", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.class.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission
"java.specification.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission
"java.specification.vendor", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.specification.name",
"read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission
"java.vm.specification.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission
"java.vm.specification.vendor", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission
"java.vm.specification.name", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.version", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.vendor", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.name", "read";
// Required for OpenJMX
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "getAttribute";
// Allow read of JAXP compliant XML parser debug
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "jaxp.debug", "read";
// Precompiled JSPs need access to this package.
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission
"accessClassInPackage.org.apache.jasper.runtime";
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission
"accessClassInPackage.org.apache.jasper.runtime.*";
};
// You can assign additional permissions to particular web applications by
// adding additional "grant" entries here, based on the code base for that
// application, /WEB-INF/classes/, or /WEB-INF/lib/ jar files.
//
// Different permissions can be granted to JSP pages, classes loaded from
// the /WEB-INF/classes/ directory, all jar files in the /WEB-INF/lib/
// directory, or even to individual jar files in the /WEB-INF/lib/
directory.
//
// For instance, assume that the standard "examples" application
// included a JDBC driver that needed to establish a network connection to
the
// corresponding database and used the scrape taglib to get the weather
from
// the NOAA web server. You might create a "grant" entries like this:
//
// The permissions granted to the context root directory apply to JSP
pages.
// grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/examples/-" {
// permission java.net.SocketPermission "dbhost.mycompany.com:5432",
"connect";
// permission java.net.SocketPermission "*.noaa.gov:80", "connect";
// };
//
// The permissions granted to the context WEB-INF/classes directory
// grant codeBase
"file:${catalina.home}/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/-" {
// };
//
// The permission granted to your JDBC driver
// grant codeBase
"jar:file:${catalina.home}/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/lib/driver.jar!/-" {
// permission java.net.SocketPermission "dbhost.mycompany.com:5432",
"connect";
// };
// The permission granted to the scrape taglib
// grant codeBase
"jar:file:${catalina.home}/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/lib/scrape.jar!/-" {
// permission java.net.SocketPermission "*.noaa.gov:80", "connect";
// };
