Bug#545674: tomcat6: Crashes when trying to run a web app, including admin

[Heikki Levanto]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:24:12PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> > You can add the appropriate permissions in /etc/tomcat6/policy.d, but
> > actually I have no idea how it could work on 6.0.20-2 if the rules were
> > not there in the first place.
> 
> Well, that rule *is* there in the default installation. The problem
> seems to be that something prevents it reading any policy files, and
> *any* web applications from running! 
> ...
> I suspect there is something fishy with file permissions and/or the way
> the policy.d is concatenated into a single policy file (that seems to
> be Debian-specific), but I haven't been able to debug it further.

I suspected wrong. Adding this entry to some file in policy.d makes the
security manager work:

   grant {
       permission java.security.AllPermission;
       };

So, the files are being concatenated and read all right.

Now I am ready to accept the bug as belonging to the tomcat6-admin. We
may have another problem with our own application, but that is not a
problem for you.

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Heikki Levanto    heikki at indexdata dot dk   "In Murphy We Turst"