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Add a Policy Entry with a SignedBy Alias

To grant code signed by susan permission to read any files in the C:\TestData directory, you need to create a policy entry granting this permission. Note that "Code signed by susan" is an abbreviated way of saying "Code in a class file contained in a JAR file, where the JAR file was signed using the private key corresponding to the public key that appears in a keystore certificate in an entry aliased by susan."

Choose the Add Policy Entry button in the main Policy Tool window. This brings up the Policy Entry dialog box:

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Using this dialog box, type the following alias into the SignedBy text box:

susan

Leave the CodeBase text box blank, to grant all code signed by susan the permission, no matter where it comes from.

Note: If you wanted to restrict the permission to just code signed by susan that comes from the C:\Test\ directory, you would type the following URL into the CodeBase text box:

file:/C:/Test/*

To add the permission, choose the Add Permission button. This brings up the Permissions dialog box.

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Do the following.

Choose File Permission from the Permission drop-down list. The complete permission type name (java.io.FilePermission) now appears in the text box to the right of the drop-down list.
Type the following in the text box to the right of the list labeled Target Name to specify all files in the C:\TestData\ directory:
```
C:\TestData\*
```
Specify read access by choosing the read option from the Actions drop-down list.

Now the Permissions dialog box looks like the following.

the Permission dialog, with fields filled in

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Choose the OK button. The new permission appears in a line in the Policy Entry dialog, as follows.

the new Permission appears in the Policy Entry dialog

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Note: Each backslash in the file path you typed has been replaced with two backslashes, for your convenience. Strings in a policy file are processed by a tokenizer that allows \ to be used as an escape character (for example, \n to indicate a new line), so the policy file requires two backslashes to indicate a single backslash. If you use single backslashes as your directory separators, Policy Tool automatically converts them to double backslashes for you.

You are now done specifying this policy entry, so choose the Done button in the Policy Entry dialog. The Policy Tool window now contains a line representing the policy entry, showing the SignedBy value.

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