[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 6782021: It is not possible to read local computer certificates with the SunMSCAPI provider

[Mat Carter]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:45:39 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Backport of 5e5500cbd79b40a32c20547ea0cdb81ef6904a3d
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>> On Windows you can now access the local machine keystores using the strings "Windows-MY-LOCALMACHINE" and "Windows-ROOT-LOCALMACHINE"; note the application requires admin privileges.
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>> "Windows-MY" and "Windows-ROOT" remain unchanged, however given these original keystore strings mapped to the current user, I added "Windows-MY-CURRENTUSER" and "Windows-ROOT-CURRENTUSER" so that a developer can explicitly specify the current user location. These two new strings simply map to the original two strings, i.e. no duplication of code paths etc
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>> keystore functionality and API remains unchanged, the local machine keystore types require the manual tests to run in admin mode
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>> Tested on windows, passes tier1 (via GH Actions) and manual tests provided in the patch
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> I've approved the backport and can help to sponsor it.

Thanks @RealCLanger , much appreciated - @karianna is away this week, I've been helping him through the backport process, can you or I '/integrate" this?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/630