Re: [equinox-dev] Signed bundles

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The option to enable signed bundles in 3.3 is osgi.support.signature.verify (notice "support" and "signature" are reversed). In 3.4 we are introducing a more general option called osgi.signedcontent.support which does not have simple true|false options, but we will continue to recognize the old 3.3. option. Matt is documenting the security options in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217765

The internal security manager class is needed to fully support postponed conditions in ConditionalPermissionAdmin. If postponed conditions are not needed then simply enabling the security manager with -Djava.security.policy="" will enable the built-in security manager which will satisfy most needs.

There is an option called eclipse.security. This option is used by the launcher jar to setup a policy to grant the framework and the launcher AllPermissions and specify the security manager to use. Unfortunately this still requires a reference to an internal class if you want to load a security manager to support postponed conditions. I've opened a bug to investigate making this easier. Perhaps eclipse.security manager can have a value that indicates the framework should load its internal security manager. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=218001.

Tom



Jeff McAffer ---02/06/2008 07:47:10 AM---Marcel Offermans wrote:

From:	Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	02/06/2008 07:47 AM
Subject:	Re: [equinox-dev] Signed bundles

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Marcel Offermans wrote:
> So, reiterating, if I want to run Equinox with OSGi security enabled 
> and have it use my own keystore, I have to start it like this 
> (formatted a bit for clarity, but typed as one big line):
>
> java
>   -Djava.security.manager=org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkSecurityManager
>   -Djava.security.policy=policy
>   -Dosgi.framework.keystore=keystore
>   -Dosgi.signature.support.verify=true 
>   -jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.0.v20071207.jar
>   -console
>   -consoleLog
>
> Basically, I'm asking how Equinox is being run to be compliant with 
> OSGi security.
Is the above line accurate?  Seems complicated and requires people to 
reference internal classes etc.  Could be wrong but I remember it being 
simipler

Jeff
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