Bug 314211 - Appletviewer is missing permissions to access time zone data.
Summary: Appletviewer is missing permissions to access time zone data.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: java-1.7.0-icedtea
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Fitzsimmons
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-01 17:15 UTC by Marc Schoenefeld
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-12 21:01:20 UTC
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2007-10-01 17:15:59 UTC
Description of problem:

Appletviewer is missing permissions to access time zone data: 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[schonef@localhost javatest]$ appletviewer -J-version
java version "1.7.0"
IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-kojibuilder_27_sep_2007_14_56-b00)
IcedTea Client VM (build 11.0-b05, mixed mode)



How reproducible:

Start an applet with appletviewer

  
Actual results:

[schonef@localhost javatest]$ appletviewer IcedTea170Test3.html 
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
(java.util.PropertyPermission user.zoneinfo.dir read)
        at
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:342)
        at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:554)




Expected results:

Applet runs fine


Additional info:

Had to add the following permissions: 

[schonef@localhost javatest]$ more mypolicy.txt 
grant {
        Permission java.util.PropertyPermission "user.zoneinfo.dir","read";
        Permission java.io.FilePermission
"/usr/share/javazi/ZoneInfoMappings", "read";
};

Comment 1 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2007-10-02 20:03:44 UTC
Filed report upstream:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71


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