some config files out of conf directory

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Mon Aug 7 12:04:02 UTC 2017


 > On 8/4/17 11:12 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
 >> On 04/08/2017 07:59, Jiri Vanek wrote:
 >>> Hello!
 >>>
 >>> I'm packaging openjdk9 for Fedora, and following files:
 >>>   jdk/lib/security/blacklisted.certs
 >>>   jdk/lib/security/default.policy
 >>>
 >>> Seems to be config files. Still, they are in lib/security, whether all
 >>> other config files were (finally! Thank you!) moved to
 >>>   jdk/conf/
 >>> and its subdirectories.  Is it intentional? Why so? Are there plans to
 >>> change it?
 >> cc'ing security-dev in case there is more needed on this but in summary,
 >> these are not intended to be edited so this is why they are in the `lib`
 >> rather than `conf` directory.
 >
 > Yes, Alan is correct. The default.policy file contains the permissions
 > granted by default to the modules included in the JDK (that are loaded
 > by the platform loader) and blacklisted.certs contains a system-wide
 > list of certificates that are distrusted by the CertPath implementation
 > in the JDK. They are not configuration files, they are generally meant
 > to be files that typically never need to be modified.

TYVM!

   J.

Thanks,
Sean



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