Using Tomcat Security Policy breaks RdbmsPolicy
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         Key: JS2-205
         URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-205
     Project: Jetspeed 2
        Type: Bug
  Components: Security  
    Versions: 2.0-M2    
    Reporter: David Sean Taylor
 Assigned to: David Sean Taylor 
     Fix For: 2.0-M2


I set my Tomcat Security policy to:

grant {
   permission java.security.AllPermission;
}; 

Start Tomcat 5.0.31 as:

catalina run -security

And it gets a stack overflow from recursive loop in policy setup:

        at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:
401)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:524)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.getSubject(Subject.java:251)
        at org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.RdbmsPolicy.getPermissions(RdbmsPol
icy.java:90)
        at java.security.Policy.getPermissions(Policy.java:343)
        at java.security.Policy.implies(Policy.java:397)
        at java.security.ProtectionDomain.implies(ProtectionDomain.java:189)
        at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlConte

As an interim fix, if you don't need the Rdbms Policy,
In the jetspeed-spring.xml, comment out:

  <!-- Security: RDBMS Policy implementation for JAAS -->
  <!--
  <bean id="org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.RdbmsPolicy" 
           class="org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.RdbmsPolicy"
  >        
           <constructor-arg ><ref 
bean="org.apache.jetspeed.security.PermissionManager"/></constructor-arg>       
 
  </bean>
  -->
  <!-- Security: Authorization Provider -->
  <!--
  <bean id="org.apache.jetspeed.security.AuthorizationProvider" 
           class="org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.AuthorizationProviderImpl"
  >        
           <constructor-arg ><ref 
bean="org.apache.jetspeed.security.impl.RdbmsPolicy"/></constructor-arg>   
  </bean>
  -->


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