Missing "Manage certificates" button in Java Control Panel Security Dialog
Issue
Oracle is tightening security restrictions for Java web applications. Starting with Oracle JRE 1.7-51 (to be released in January 2014), only signed applications with proper security manifest will be runnable. This requires also that users import the public keys used for signing the web apps in their Java environment.
With Oracle Java, this is normally done through the Java Control Panel.
The most important part of this dialog is the "Manage certificates" button.
If Oracle JRE 1.7-45 is installed on RHEL (6.3 and 5.10 tested), the "Manage Certificates" button is missing in the GUI.
Thus user can't import certificates using the Control Panel. The only possible way to import certificates for signed Java code under RHEL is using the commandline "keytool".
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6
- Oracle java
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