cannot grant Super User Privilege in communicator

David HANNAPPE (dhe@orlando.fr)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:44:08 +0200

Hello,
when I tried to enable SuperUser privilege, I got :

netscape.security.ForbiddenTargetException: User didn't grant the
SuperUser privilege.
netscape.security.ForbiddenTargetException: User didn't grant the
SuperUser privilege.
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.RuntimeException.<init>(Compiled Code)
at netscape.security.ForbiddenTargetException.<init>(Compiled Code)
at
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrincipalPrivilegeHelper(Compiled
Code)
at netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilegePrivate(Compiled
Code)
* at netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege(Compiled Code)
at SecurityContext.isCapableOf(Compiled Code)
at ProxyClientApplet.init(Compiled Code)
at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame.run(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)


I use a test certificate generated by signtools
and communicator 4.05
my applet is compiled with jdk1.1.6

can you help me ?
thanks
david

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