Re: [Sheflug] Netscape and Java ...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Lewis Ashton wrote:

> One of my pet projects for the next few months is to sort out some proper
> baselines for Java and some sensible security tweaks. As soon as I've pulled
> this lot together I'll publish it to the list. The down side to this is that
> I need to learn Java....bugger. I gave up coding a couple of years back!

Look for lib/security/java.policy and read up on policy files either on
java.sun.com or get Java Enterprise/Security by O'Reilly Associates.

The base security measure is actually quite restrictive. It's pretty easy
to configure too. IMO the security model is one of the few high lights of
a pretty patchy product (Now if Sun would GPL Java2EE I might be
interested)

> PS Any body know of any System Security jobs going in the area?

Try www.myopenapps.com. They're a Linux shop, and expanding a fair bit,
dunno if they have any security jobs as such.


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