Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:46:46 -0700
Message-Id: <199704141946.MAA13380@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: mbordas@gotham.East.Sun.COM
Subject: Re: identity.database question
> The database created/maintained by javakey is specified by the
> identity.database property in $JAVAHOME/lib/security/java.security,
> which means you can only have one database per JVM. Is this correct?
Yes.
> Also, the system.scope property is set to sun.security.provider.IdentityScope.
> This loads the system IdentityScope from the database indicated by
> identity.database, or, if identity.datbase is not specified, to the
> default ($HOME/identitydb.obj). Is this correct?
Yes!
> Are there plans to support multiple key databases in the future?
In general, yes, but it's hard to be more specific about this until we
get past the next hurdle, which is to support the X509v3 APIs in the
next release of JDK.
Marianne