Java guru question

[L. Adrian Griffis]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Jason Clinton wrote:
> I have a question about the Java security model:
> 
> I'm not a Java programmer but I use enough Java applets that I 
> understand how the JRE works, etc. I am trying to access a site that 
> uses a Java applet called IBM Host-On-Demand. The long and short of it 
> is: this version of the applet was written to work with the Microsoft 
> version of the JVM and so I can't log in to this thing from Linux and 
> the Sun JRE because of differences in the secuirty model between 
> Microsoft and Sun's implementations.
> 
> Upon searching, I discovered that there are some interesting security 
> policy files in /opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/security but they use some 
> Java language syntax. I want to _lax_ the Sun policies to allow things 
> that are allowed by Microsoft's JVM so I can access this site. What are 
> some entries I can make in these files to do that?

Do you have any idea what the specific things are that are being
disallowed and result in the application failing?  Is there an
Exception and stack trace that you could show us?

Adrian