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Set Up the Policy File to Grant the Required Permissions

You will now use the Policy Tool to open the policy file named mypolicy created in the Quick Tour of Controlling Applets(in the Java Security 1.2 trail) lesson. You will add a new policy entry granting permission for code from the directory where GetProps.class is stored to read the "user.home" and the "java.home" property values, as shown in the following figure.

The steps are as follows.

  1. Open the Policy File

  2. Grant the Required Permissions

  3. Save the Policy File


Note for UNIX Users: The instructions illustrate creating the policy file for a Windows system. The steps are exactly the same if you are working on a UNIX system, with the following differences.


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