RMI and Security for OCJD

[A.G Rajkotia]

Hello,

In the OCJD assignment we often use RMI. While the program communicates with the server through the Internet are there any security threats concern with this. Are we required to implement such security code in our assignment. This is because I don't have any knowledge on security.

Thank you

[Roel De Nijs]

As per instructions no need to implement any security at all.

[A.G Rajkotia]

Roel De Nijs wrote:As per instructions no need to implement any security at all.

Hi Roel, Thanks for the reply

Can you still tell me the security measures that can be applied, I need them
Any book, links, tutorials will be very helpful.

I'm currently using the following code both in my server and client class which i got from rmi tutorials at oracle website

if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) {
System.setSecurityManager(new SecurityManager());
}


Is this sufficient or do we need more.

[Roel De Nijs]

If your question is related to the OCMJD you are not allowed to use a security manager at all. So I have no idea why you need security (unless it's not with regard to the OCMJD and then you'll be better off with posting this question in a more appropriate forum).

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

I guess Monkhouse book mentions what to do in case network is protected by firewall. But as Roel has already mentioned, this (security) is not a must requirement (so I didn't even read that part ).

[A.G Rajkotia]

Thankx Anayonkar, it helped me a lot

Guys anything on Rmi Security (link, article, blog) will be really helpful. I know Its not required for OCJD, but still I need it.

[Roel De Nijs]

A.G Rajkotia wrote:I know Its not required for OCJD, but still I need it.

Moved to Distributed Java

He posted already another thread on this topic, so locking this one.