Bank of Ireland Business Banking

Hi Guys,

Been trying to get Bank of Ireland business banking working on my linux
machine, and not having much luck, others appear to have had sucess but I
am failing, just like to bounce my findings here.

My system is debian jessie 64bit with KDE, and I use firefox as my browser.

Traditionally Bank of Ireland only supported Microsoft Windows but this
year released an upgrade to include Apple Mac support. From virtually any
environment, you can log in and browse the application interface, but for
the fun elements like making payments you need to use Sun Java to access
digital certificates stored on the local machine.

I enrolled for a digital cert from linux, got my sun java working, and
sucessfully created a digital cert with the path /home/harry/HARRY001

The actions of authorising a payment or changing the certificate password
yield the error - no certificate.

I zipped up the cert, and took it to a windows host, unpacked it into:
c:\mydocument\dc\HARRY001

And voilla it works, I can authorise payments from windows using the keys /
certs I created under linux.

I googled for an answer, and it suggested the Apple default paths work
under linux, so if you create
/Users/<username>
Then your cert goes into
/Users/harry/HARRY001

Doesn't work for me. And yes... the path from /Users down is owned by me,
my group, and I have given it world read write and excute permissions.

When you create a cert, it lets you specify the path, but you can't change
this afterwards. I found this curious. I impersonated a Mac user and rang
for support, the agent told me that you can create a cert on Mac and
transport it to windows and use it, but you cannot create a cert on windows
and transport it to a Mac. The reason all comes down to the certificate
path. He was able to tell me my path over the phone that it was
/home/harry/HARRY001 but then asked me to try using it from Safari at which
point I had to bug out of the call.

So voilla, the path is not the path, if you set the path on Windows, it
will expect a c:\ path on any
other device that you transport the key pair to, but if you create it on a
mac, it will by default put the cert into /Users/<username> and then when
loaded on windows, will default back to looking in
c:\mydocument\dc\<CERTFOLDERNAME>

I tested this, I created a new cert on a mac, the cert went into
/Users/harry/HARRY001

Logged in, it works, I can change the cert password.

Transported it to my linux host, same path
logged in, can't change the password, complains that I have no cert

Transported it to my windows laptop
put it into c:\mydocument\dc
works, can change the cert password.

And it still works on the mac.


My system specifics are:

root@linux:/# uname -a
Linux linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@linux:/# java -version
java version "1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode)
root@linux:/#


Curious if anybody has this working and if you are using 32bit or 64bit
system, 32 bit or 64bit java, and what distro, and if you can spot anything
glaringly wrong in what I am attempting??

Are there any particular permissions on the cert folder and key files?

Thanks,

Harry.

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Irish Linux Users Group
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