Adding 3rd Party Root Certifications

[Guest Matchstick]

Hi,

I'm looking to add the CACert Root certificate to my new Desire so it stops complaining whenever I visit a site secured by a CACert certificate.

There are instructions here on how to achieve this on fully rooted phones like my old Hero http://wiki.cacert.org/ImportRootCert#Android_Phones

and everything works fine until you get to step 5 at which point the lack of read/write access to /system causes a problem.

I vaguely know my way around adb but I don't know fastboot so I'm wondering if there's an easy way to upload this customised cacerts.bks back into /system/etc/security/ via recovery mode ?

[Guest persko]

in order to write to the /system directory, you need to be booted in recovery mode,

use a procedure like the folowing:

1: power off your Desire

2:Power on your Desire holding the volume down key

3:select recovery

4:when the read triangle shows, run the recovery script from the root package:

(recovery-linux.sh, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-windows.bat) depending on your OS.

5:mount the /system partition (# adb shell mount /system)

6: copy your certificat to the system (#adb push cacerts.bks /system/etc/security)

7: reboot your phone.

Hope this helps

Per

[Guest Matchstick]

in order to write to the /system directory, you need to be booted in recovery mode,

use a procedure like the folowing:

1: power off your Desire

2:Power on your Desire holding the volume down key

3:select recovery

4:when the read triangle shows, run the recovery script from the root package:

(recovery-linux.sh, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-windows.bat) depending on your OS.

5:mount the /system partition (# adb shell mount /system)

6: copy your certificat to the system (#adb push cacerts.bks /system/etc/security)

7: reboot your phone.

Hope this helps

Per

Thanks for that.

I didn't realise you could just use adb in recovery mode !!

Anyway that has worked perfectly cheers for that :)