There is a method to force JAAS to reload the system property.

Something like Configuration.getConfiguration().refresh()

You have to call that method after changing the system property

Hope that helps
Enrico

Il gio 9 gen 2020, 20:05 Damien Diederen <ddiede...@sinenomine.net> ha
scritto:

>
> Hi Arpit, Máté,
>
> Arpit wrote:
>
> > The solution is to pass JAAS file
> > with  -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/path/to/jaas.conf.
>
> Okay—good.
>
> > Using System.setProperty does not work for me.
>
> Ah, I see.  And I'm not surprised; I think Máté is on the right track:
>
> >> I also faced this exception not long ago. I think it is an edge case,
> most
> >> probably you have something else, but still... maybe it helps:
> >>
> >> I tried to write a unit test which dynamically generated multiple
> >> jaas.conf files. Then I was setting the
> >> java.security.auth.login.config system property to the config file I
> needed
> >> in the given testcase, and when I tried to establish a ZooKeeper
> connection
> >> in the unit test, I also got the same exception that you got.
> >>
> >> The problem was, that the security configuration file I referred in the
> >> java.security.auth.login.config system property file was read only once,
> >> then stored in memory. And it haven't got reloaded, even if the file (or
> >> its path in the system property) changed.
>
> My understanding is that the property is read very early after "VM boot"
> (the first time any class tries to access the java.security.Provider):
> the resource it points to is parsed at that point, and the property
> "never" checked again.
>
> (It *may* be possible to flush the "Spi" or something, but it's clearly
> not the kind of usage it was designed for.)
>
> >> Maybe the best in this case is to
> >> specify separate JAAS config sections for each tests and use a single
> >> JAAS.conf file per JVM.
>
> That's probably the easiest if the set is enumerable.
>
> "Real dynamism" might require overriding the "Spi" or "Provider," but
> that's probably overkill for a few tests.
>
> (Now that I think of it… our tests are already run under the JMockit
> agent, so live-patching JAAS methods using mockit.MockUp might be
> another option :)
>
> Anyway.  It looks like setting the property externally worked for Arpit.
>
> Cheers, -D
>

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