[JAMES-3949] Guice james server no longer starts on windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: guice
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benoit Tellier
• Created: 20/Oct/23 14:31
• Updated: 30/Oct/23 05:46
• Resolved: 30/Oct/23 05:46

Description

We did some changes to prevent privilege escalation with JMX but apparently file permission handling fails on windows.

We can likely avoid setting permissions when on Windows.

CF

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: null
at
java.base/java.nio.file.Files.setPosixFilePermissions(Files.java:2168)
at
org.apache.james.modules.server.JMXServer.setPermissionOwnerOnly(JMXServer.java:202)
at
org.apache.james.modules.server.JMXServer.generateJMXPasswordFile(JMXServer.java:179)
at
org.apache.james.modules.server.JMXServer.generateJMXPasswordFileIfNeed(JMXServer.java:164)
at
org.apache.james.modules.server.JMXServer.doStart(JMXServer.java:123)
at
org.apache.james.modules.server.JMXServer.start(JMXServer.java:94)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1763