RMI Security Manager Bug

Alex Chaffee (alex@stinky.com)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:13:08 -0400

Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971018181308.0068ef9c@mail.interport.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:13:08 -0400
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com
From: Alex Chaffee <alex@stinky.com>
Subject: RMI Security Manager Bug

According to the RMI spec, "Only if a security manager is in force will
stubs be loaded from either the local machine or from a network source."
(See C:\jdk\docs\guide\rmi\spec\rmi-server.doc.html#1638 and #1639.)

I've got code that runs fine over both the local machine and a network
source with no Security Manager. (Nothing fancy, just an RMI hello world.)

Seems like a bug in the implementation of RMI.

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Alex Chaffee - alex@stinky.com