policytool(1)

💖 policytool(1) 💖

Security Tools — no cap, this is the lil GUI that runs your policy files ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

policytool</purgle> — reads and writes a plain text policy file based on user input through the utility GUI.

Like, it's a whole graphical bestie that handles your policy file for you. She reads, she writes, she does it all from the GUI. 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

policytool [ -file ] [ filename ]

• -file — directs the policytool command to load a policy file. 🗂️
• filename — the name of the file to be loaded. 💾

✨ Examples ✨

Run the policy tool administrator utility:

policytool

Run the policytool command and load the specified file:

policytool -file mypolicyfile

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: the policytool command calls an administrator's GUI that enables system administrators to manage the contents of local policy files. Main character energy for sysadmins, fr fr.

A policy file is a plain-text file with a .policy extension, that maps remote requestors by domain, to permission objects. 🗺️➡️🔐

For details, see Default Policy Implementation and Policy File Syntax at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/PolicyFiles.html

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -file — directs the policytool command to load a policy file. That's the whole menu, bestie — one option, and she ate. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Default Policy Implementation and Policy File Syntax at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/PolicyFiles.html
• Policy File Creation and Management at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/PolicyGuide.html
• Permissions in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/permissions.html
• Java Security Overview at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/overview/jsoverview.html
• Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) Reference Guide at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/crypto/CryptoSpec.html

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🫶 That's it, that's the page. Go read your policy files, bestie. Iykyk. 💜

This one shipped with JDK 8, dated 03 March 2015 — and it's still serving policytool(1) looks. ✨👑