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

From: Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:23:33 +0100

yep, SUN should publish asap a complete list of all security keys and
values.. I don't know why this information is not easy to
find............

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mathijs Kwik <bluescreen303_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> well in that case I can just as well disable security manager (no overhead)
> the point is... I want security manager, to restrict which parts of
> the filesystem my app is allowed to access.
>
> So I would like a way to find out what permission rails is violating,
> so I can add that and start adding/removing the restrictions I want.
>
>
> Thanks for trying to help though
>
> 2010/1/6 Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>:
>> you can appeal to the extreme "AllPermission":
>>
>> grant codeBase "file:/home/fgaucho/.hudson/-" {
>>    permission java.security.AllPermission;
>> };
>>
>> where "file:/home/fgaucho/.hudson/-" is the path to your
>> application...............
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Mathijs Kwik <bluescreen303_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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