Re: Security in Browsers

Charlie Lai (charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:58:14 -0800 (PDT)

From: charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199807231658.JAA13286@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Security in Browsers
To: r55@nikhef.nl (Onne Peters)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:58:14 -0800 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <35B5B31D.55237D93@nikhef.nl> from "Onne Peters" at Jul 22, 98 11:38:37 am

hi,

> When I now go to the webpage containing
> my applet using HotJava, the applet can access the serial port and has
> no security restrictions.
> However, if I go to this site as another user, on the same system, the
> applet is not granted access to the serial port and has all the security
> restrictions.

all users who want to run the applet must import the trusted certificate
into their respective identity databases using javakey. after doing this,
i believe things should work as expected.

thanks,
charlie