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-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-// Policy file to prevent tests from writing outside the test sandbox directory
-// PLEASE NOTE: You may need to enable other permissions when new tests are added,
-// everything not allowed here is forbidden!
-
-grant {
-  // permissions for file access, write access only to sandbox:
-  permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>", "read,execute";
-  permission java.io.FilePermission "${junit4.childvm.cwd}", "read,execute,write";
-  permission java.io.FilePermission "${junit4.childvm.cwd}${/}-", "read,execute,write,delete";
-  permission java.io.FilePermission "${junit4.tempDir}${/}*", "read,execute,write,delete";
-  permission groovy.security.GroovyCodeSourcePermission "/groovy/script";
-
-  // Allow connecting to the internet anywhere
-  permission java.net.SocketPermission "*", "accept,listen,connect,resolve";
-
-  // Basic permissions needed for Lucene / Elasticsearch to work:
-  permission java.util.PropertyPermission "*", "read,write";
-  permission java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "*";
-  permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "*";
-
-  // These two *have* to be spelled out a separate
-  permission java.lang.management.ManagementPermission "control";
-  permission java.lang.management.ManagementPermission "monitor";
-
-  permission java.net.NetPermission "*";
-  permission java.util.logging.LoggingPermission "control";
-  permission javax.management.MBeanPermission "*", "*";
-  permission javax.management.MBeanServerPermission "*";
-  permission javax.management.MBeanTrustPermission "*";
-
-  // Needed for some things in DNS caching in the JVM
-  permission java.security.SecurityPermission "getProperty.networkaddress.cache.ttl";
-  permission java.security.SecurityPermission "getProperty.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl";
-
-};