[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 6782021: It is not possible to read local computer certificates with the SunMSCAPI provider

Mat Carter duke at openjdk.org
Tue Sep 6 15:13:51 UTC 2022


On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:01:49 GMT, Mat Carter <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport of e3c178d6d87c9e0e2a75cddc72d802cf9124420e
> 
> 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.
> 
> "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
> 
> keystore functionality and API remains unchanged, the local machine keystore types require the manual tests to run in admin mode
> 
> Tested on windows, passes tier1 (via GH Actions) and manual tests provided in the patch

@RealCLanger - would you mind sponsoring this backport, this is the last backport for this patch

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/1348


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