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Where is the correct place to add a trusted certificate on Linux? [message #1806622]

Sun, 12 May 2019 09:39

Mark Raynsford

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Registered: June 2014

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Hello.

I'm using a local Nexus server to proxy artifacts from Maven Central. I have an organization-wide CA, and the Nexus server is using a certificate from that CA. Eclipse refuses to talk to the server because it doesn't recognize the certificate. For a typical Java program, I would use -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=... on the command line to specify a trust store in my home directory that has my CA's certificate in it. Unfortunately, Eclipse seems to ignore this property (tracing Eclipse with strace shows that it never looks at this file). There are no configuration options within Eclipse that I can see that allow for specifying a trust store. I could try to edit eclipse.ini, but that would mean that I would have to edit it every time I update my OS packages (because the updates will wipe out the existing eclipse.ini).

What is the right way to do this?

OS is Arch Linux. Java is OpenJDK 11.

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Re: Where is the correct place to add a trusted certificate on Linux? [message #1806625 is a reply to message #1806622]

Sun, 12 May 2019 11:29

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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I'm not sure if the option will do the trick, but if you want to specify VM arguments on the command line to the eclipse executable they need to be at the end and they need to have -vmargs before them:

https://help.eclipse.org/2019-03/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html

I.e., eclipse -vmargs -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=... will pass those arguments to the JVM that the eclipse native executable launches. Without the -vmargs they will be treated as program argument to the Eclipse application (which will generally ignore options it doesn't recognize).

You can of course also put this in your eclipse.ini after the line with -vmargs on it. Updates will not wipe these out.

If you use the installer to create installations, you could put an Eclipse Ini Task in your user.setup so that every new installation you crate automatically has this added to the eclipse.ini.

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring

Ed Merks
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