Re: Bank of Ireland Business Banking

Hi Paul,

I was trying to use the java console to see this but couldn't find any
trace or any sign of a read error etc.

Harry

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 12:46 PM, paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> Where is it actually looking for the certs when you run it?
> lsof (or some other system tool) should be able to tell you this, if
> it's written competently.
>
>
> On 13/10/16 12:16, Harry Duncan wrote:
> > 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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