Thanks for your prompt reply. So the best practice is to have a management 
agent set of bundles maintaining policy information and responsible for 
managing the other bundles, which is great.! 

Regarding the other question, pardon me but I am not able to understand the 
term "super user" . Are you referring to the management bundle here.? Also let 
us say I export a service instead of a package, then is it possible for a 
separate management agent to enforce that only a particular bundle B can 
consume my service. Are the security conditions and permissions different for a 
service and package. 

Thanks, 
Srijith.

>>> BJ Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/15/08 7:34 PM >>>

In general, the management of permission is best done by a management agent: a 
bundle (or set of bundles) tasked with managing the set of installed bundles 
including the security policy. Enforcing permissions of course means that a 
SecurityManager is installed.

In order to modify the permissions on CPA, the caller must have AllPermission. 
So, in your example, bundle A would need AllPermission to modify the 
permissions so that only bundle B can import a specific package. Bundle A is 
then a "super user" which seems wrong.
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From: 
"Srijith Kochunni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

To: 
<[email protected]> 

Date: 
2008/04/15 07:03 AM 

Subject: 
[equinox-dev] Granting permissions for usage of Bundle 





Hi All, 

         I have a bundle(A) from which I am exporting a package. I want to 
ensure that this package can be imported only by another particular bundle(B) 
in the OSGi runtime. Have been reading the spec about Conditional Permission 
Admin Service and Permission Admin Service, but am finding it difficult to 
understand whether they do provide such a facility and if so how it can be 
achieved using these core services. 

         Again I do not want to use a separate Management Agent bundle to 
enforce this scenario, unless there is no other option. It would be better if I 
could achieve this by writing code in my consumed bundle alone. Any links to 
examples for using Permission Admin Service / Conditional Permission Service 
would also be helpful.  

Thanks, 
Srijith. _______________________________________________
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