Re: Bank of Ireland Business Banking

paul <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:17:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ilug.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I was referring specifically to operating system tools.

It may very well not be programmed to print anything to console when a
file is not found.


If you can get your hands on the .jar or class files, running them
through a decompiler might also be of use.

On 13/10/16 16:10, Harry Duncan wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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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