User Policy Setting is not recognized on Netscape 6 when invoked as root

Browser: Netscape 6.1
JRE Build: Merlin Build 89/90
JRE Location: http://sqesvr/deployment3/merlin/rc/solaris.b90
               http://sqesvr/deployment3/merlin/rc/solaris.b89
               (/import/java/jdk1.4/../../<build>)

Platform: Solaris 8 - sparc 64 bit
Machine used: dnm-dtf-019
JRE flags: -Xint


When Netscape 6 browser is invoked as user root (logged in as user root)
it does not read users policy settings (<HOME>/.java.policy) and would
throw Security Exceptions on trying to load the applet.

However if the same browser was invoked as a normal user with same policy setting, it was able to load the applet succesfully.


NOTE: if logged in as as root and if netscape4.x was invoked to load the same applet with same policy setting, it worked fine. No execptions.
   Also I did not see the problem on Linux 7.1 with Netscape 6 when logged in
   as user root.
 
This case applies only on Solaris (not Linux nor Win32)




1) Login as root
2) Install the JRE
3) Install Netscape 6.1 browser
    (/net/sqesvr/deployment2/rpallath/netscape6.1/2001.09.12)
4) cd <netscape install dir.>
5) setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <netscape install dir>:<netscape install dir>/dist/lib
6) ./regxpcom <jre install dir.>/plugin/sparc/ns61.0/libjavaplugin_oji140.so
  this will register the plugin.
7) Create a .java.policy file in /
8) Copy the contents listed below onto .java.policy
    grant {
      permission java.security.AllPermission ;
    };
9) Save it
10) cd < netscape install dir>
11) ./netscape
12) Load URL http://sqesvr/deployment1/ws/tests/func/vminfo/vminfo.html

It will throw exception as displayed below.

 Exection thrown on the Console
--------------------------------
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission java.class.path read)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:270)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:401)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:542)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1291)
at vminfo.init(vminfo.java:28)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:341)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)