Import StartCom CA certificates in Windows JRE

Bart van Heukelom picture Bart van Heukelom · Nov 29, 2010 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I have a Java application accessing a service that uses a StartCom SSL certificate. For this to work, I need to add the StartCom CA certs to Java's truststore, because they're not in there by default yet. I've succesfully done that on linux using these commands

sudo keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias startcom.ca -file ca.crt
sudo keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias startcom.ca.sub.class1 -file sub.class1.server.ca.crt
sudo keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias startcom.ca.sub.class2 -file sub.class2.server.ca.crt
sudo keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias startcom.ca.sub.class3 -file sub.class3.server.ca.crt
sudo keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias startcom.ca.sub.class4 -file sub.class4.server.ca.crt

(From this script)

The same command (adapted appropriately) doesn't work on Windows however. I get:

keytool error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Usage error, trustcacerts is not a legal command

How to make it work?

Answer

Bart van Heukelom picture Bart van Heukelom · Nov 29, 2010

It was a simple typo. In converting the command I forgot a dash before "trustcacerts". :(