Using a Self-Signed Certificate

Overview

For several security features that you want to use over a secure connection (such as LDAPS, Secure Active Directory, or Secure OAuth), you may configure Artifactory to allow a non-trusted self-signed certificate

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Configuring a Self-Signed Certificate

If you want to use a non-trusted (self-signed) certificate, please follow the steps below (thanks to Marc Schoechlin for providing this information):

Download the CA of the ssl secured server
openssl s_client -connect <secure authentication server IP and port> -showcerts < /dev/null > server.ca
Examples

LDAP or Active Directory:
openssl s_client -connect the.ldap.server.net:636 -showcerts < /dev/null > server.ca

OAuth (Use the Authorization URL). For example, with GitHub:
openssl s_client -connect github.com:443/login/oauth/authorize -showcerts < /dev/null > server.ca
Identify the CA certificate and keep only the ascii-text between BEGIN/END CERTIFICATE maker
Identify the standard cacerts file of your Java installation
Create a custom cacerts file by copying the cacerts file to the Artifactory configuration dir, e.g.
cp /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1_6_0-ibm-1.6.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/
Import the CA certificate into the customized cacerts file
keytool -import -alias myca -keystore /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/cacerts -trustcacerts -file server.ca
=> Password: changeit
=> Agree to add the certificate
Change permissions for the artifactory user
chmod 755 /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/cacerts
chown artifactory:users /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/cacerts
Modify the defaults of the Artifactory JVM to use the custom cacerts file
echo "export JAVA_OPTIONS=\"\$JAVA_OPTIONS -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/cacerts\"" >> /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/default
Restart Artifactory