Kasperian Moving Parts

Fix for Linux PPC, IBM JDK, and Moneydance Bug

by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper on Sep.30, 2006, under Life in General

Wow. You know… I’ve worked around this annoyance for FAR too long… I’d blogged previously (5 months + ago???) about a bug that affects Moneydance with IBM’s JRE/JDK (you know… the ONLY one that you can find for Linux PowerPC!!) with online transaction downloading. So I decided to poke at it a bit again today and what do you know? I found a solution! As it turns out, to solve the moneydance problem with SSLContext and IBM’s JRE, change $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security like this:

# diff -pruN java.security.original java.security
— java.security.original 2006-09-30 16:09:38.000000000 -0400
+++ java.security 2006-09-30 16:11:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@
#
# List of providers and their preference orders (see above):
#
-security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2
-security.provider.2=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
-security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider
-security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath
-security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL
+#security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2
+security.provider.1=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
+security.provider.2=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider
+security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath
+security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL

#
# The entropy gathering device is described as a URL and can

Woohoo!! Mark that up to yet something else I should have figured out 5 months ago…. =:(

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