java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission /usr/share/java/jsp-api-2.0.jar read)

Question

I am trying to deploy me application to Tomcat 5.5 on Debian Lenny. I am getting the following exception:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission /usr/share/java/jsp-api-2.0.jar read)

I'm not sure what to do.

Solution

Add the following line to /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/04webapps.policy:

grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/mywebapp/-" { permission java.security.AllPermission; };

Answer 1

I smells like an SecurityManager.

It is a message from the Java Security-Manager not from the filesystem. A class within this jar-archive tries to access a file, which is not allowed by the policy.

Take a look at this really similar problem: http://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-javasecurityaccesscontrolexception-access-denied-loggingproperties-read/

The Solution ist to allow reading of files in the catalina.policy