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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