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Next, you will use the Policy Tool to create a policy file named exampleraypolicy
and in it grant a permission to code from a signed JAR file.
The JAR file must have been signed using the private key corresponding to the public key imported into Ray's keystore (exampleraystore
) in the previous step. The certificate containing the public key is aliased by susan
in the keystore. We will grant such code permission to read any file in the C:\TestData\
directory.
The steps are: