What is this warning message?
Regardless, bin/solr could detect that this scenario is going to occur and
print a message of its own so that users have better context on the
situation.

In other ways, we are investing in securing Solr.  Modularization comes to
my mind first.  And I really wish for a dev vs prod mode to gate better
defaults but no action there yet :-/.

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley


On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 5:22 PM Marcus Eagan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a part of the Log4j madness we all have dealt with, I learned of
> JEP-411(https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411). There is a wish to deprecate
> the Security Manager in Java 17 for eventual removal. I feel it is likely
> to land. As a result, I think we should start to think about what it means
> to run SOLR without the option of a Security Manager for SOLR 10 (or
> whatever the next major version will be named). I know that people can turn
> it off today if they wish to do so.
>
> Is it premature to have this discussion?
>
> I suggest it is not too early because there is a proposed warning message
> on startup of an application with Security Manager. The message alone could
> cause problems for some organizations using SOLR and lead them to abandon
> the project. Instead, there would need to be a multi-person effort to
> ensure that other countermeasures are sufficient and/or added to protect
> SOLR users from more pernicious and pervasive threats in today's world and
> the future. Enabling the Security Manager by default in SOLR was a good
> future-proofing measure for today's reality.
>
> Thank you all for your contributions,
>
> --
> Marcus Eagan
>
>

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