Installing the ABB root certificate

In order to use HTTPS while accessing the ABB Ability™ History repository, the ABB root certificate must be installed. This article guides you through installing the ABB root certificate on Linux.

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Warning

The wget commands below are insecure, and they should only be used on test systems.

Installation on Debian

Download certificate using the following command. This command will download the ABB root certificate and save it into /usr/share/ca-certificates/abb/ folder.

sudo wget http://aia.pki.abb.com/abbrootca.crt -P /usr/share/ca-certificates/abb/

To activate the ABB root certificate, you must reconfigure certificates. Run the following command and follow the instructions. Select the ABB's certificate to be added with the interactive tool by using arrows and space bar.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

Installation on Arch Linux

Download the ABB root certificate into your working directory.

wget http://aia.pki.abb.com/abbrootca.crt

Make the certificate trusted and then remove the useless file.

sudo trust anchor abbrootca.crt
sudo trust extract-compat
rm abbrootca.crt

Verifying the installation

The following command tells whether the ABB's root certificate is now trusted or not. The command should show Verify return code: 0 (ok).

openssl s_client -connect cpmplus-repository.abb.com:443 < /dev/null