Re: [PROPOSAL] Tomcat 4.1 Security Changes

2001-11-26 Thread Remy Maucherat
Remy Maucherat wrote: If you give the appropriate permissions to allow SSI and CGI, you're actually giving AllPermissions anyway (since you're allowing a native script or executable to run, which is not constrained by the Java sandbox), so I'm missing the point here. Yes, once

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tomcat 4.1 Security Changes

2001-11-25 Thread Remy Maucherat
Currently, all supporting jar files for servlets which come with Tomcat 4 are placed in the $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib directory with the Tomcat 4 core jar files. This is a potential security problem because the default catalina.policy grants AllPermission to all jar files located in