jjs with support for Security Manager?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hello,

I tried to use jjs to do some tests with the Java security manager,
however it does not completely work:

a) when starting jjs with -Djava.security.manager no SM is installed:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin>jjs -Djava.security.manager          
jjs> java.lang.System.getSecurityManager()                              
null                                                                    

This is normally the job of the launcher, so I guess this is a problem in the jjs binary.

b) when installing the SM by hand it seems to have a deny-all policy:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin>jjs
jjs> var Manager = Java.type("java.lang.SecurityManager")
jjs> java.lang.System.setSecurityManager(new Manager)
null
jjs> java.lang.System.getSecurityManager()
java.lang.SecurityManager at 51b279c
jjs> java.lang.System.getPropert("java.version")
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.util.PropertyPermission" "java.version" "read")
jjs> exit()
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "exitVM.0")

However I cannot use java.security.debug=all to see where the problem is. No idea why this is. Maybe it is related to the way system properties are set with jjs? Any ideas?

Greetings
Bernd