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Re: enabling the security manager on a ruby on rails application

From: Mathijs Kwik <bluescreen303_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:12:12 +0100

Thank, but
I already did that :)

So jruby itself works fine.
The problem arises when rails tries to render the flash (which uses
the session):

[#|2010-01-06T18:07:56.392+0100|INFO|glassfishv3.0|com.sun.grizzly.jruby.rack.JRubyRuntime|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|

Processing PostsController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-01-06 18:07:56) [GET]
Rendering template within layouts/posts
Rendering posts/index

ActionView::TemplateError (missing provider) on line #12 of
app/views/layouts/posts.html.erb:
9: </head>
10: <body>
11:
12: <p style="color: green"><%= flash[:notice] %></p>
13:
14: <%= yield %>
15:

    app/views/layouts/posts.html.erb:12
    app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:7:in `index'
    file:/home/mathijs/tmp/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/grizzly-jruby.jar!/rack/adapter/rails.rb:133:in
`call'
    file:/home/mathijs/tmp/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/grizzly-jruby.jar!/rack/handler/grizzly.rb:55:in
`call'
    :1

Rendering rescues/layout (internal_server_error)
|#]


and sometimes:

[#|2010-01-06T17:59:32.513+0100|INFO|glassfishv3.0|com.sun.grizzly.jruby.rack.JRubyRuntime|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|/!\
FAILSAFE /!\ Wed Jan 06 17:59:32 +0100 2010
  Status: 500 Internal Server Error
  missing provider
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb:56:in
`generate_digest'
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb:37:in
`generate'
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.4/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb:151:in
`marshal'
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.4/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb:100:in
`call'
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.4/lib/action_controller/failsafe.rb:26:in
`call'
    /opt/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.4/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:106:in
`call'
    file:/home/mathijs/tmp/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/grizzly-jruby.jar!/rack/adapter/rails.rb:133:in
`call'
    file:/home/mathijs/tmp/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/grizzly-jruby.jar!/rack/handler/grizzly.rb:55:in
`call'
    :1


Processing PostsController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-01-06 17:59:32) [GET]
Rendering template within layouts/posts
Rendering posts/index
Completed in 9ms (View: 4, DB: 1) | 200 OK [http://flatser.dev/posts]
|#]


So the policy changes make sure jruby works, but rails obviously needs
some extra persmissions to access the session.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Vivek Pandey <Vivek.Pandey_at_sun.com> wrote:
> Yes with security manager on you should be able to deploy Rails, see
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10271.
>
> In server.policy file, there are security policies for JRuby. It assumes
> that JRuby is installation is at glassfishv3/glassfish/jruby. You should
> change it by the JRuby location you have on your local machine.
>
> Here is the excerpt from server.policy file:
>
> //JRuby security permissions
> grant  codeBase "file:${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/jruby/lib/-"{
>   permission java.io.FilePermission       "<<ALL FILES>>", "read";
>   permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks";
>     permission java.util.PropertyPermission "jruby.*", "read";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessClassInPackage.*";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "createClassLoader";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "defineClassInPackage.*";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "getClassLoader";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessDeclaredMembers";
>   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "getenv.*";
> };
>
> Above, you should replace '${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/jruby/lib/' by your
> 'jruby-install-dir/lib' if its not glassfishv3/glassfish/jruby. You can find
> the server.policy policy file inside your domain's config directory. For
> example, glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config.
>
>
> -vivek.
>
> Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in enabling the security manager and still being
>> able to run rails applications?
>> I'm running glassfish v3
>> I deployed a rails app using the directory deployer (asadmin deploy .)
>> Everything works fine without security manager, but after enabling it,
>> I get 500's
>>
>> Judging by the rails error log, I suspect it to be unable to access
>> the session or some cookie.
>>
>> I tried to find the audit log, but couldn't find it anywhere.
>>
>>
>> I have 3 questions:
>> - How can I enable logging of security violations and where do I find the
>> logs?
>> - Is anyone aware of a good default jruby+rails permission set? or a
>> list of possible grant options? or documentation for the security
>> system?
>> - I will be running multiple apps (on multiple virtual hosts) and I
>> don't want them to access the filesystem directories belonging to
>> other apps. Do I need to run different domains for this? or is it
>> possible to do per-app security configuration and just use 1 domain?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Mathijs
>>
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