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I'm doing some automation for a local machine in Vagrant using Puppet.

I need to add a CA certificate to the trusted list in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS. I simply add the file to the right place:

file { 'godaddy-ca-cert':
    path   => '/usr/share/ca-certificates/godaddy-ca.crt',
    owner  => 'root',
    group  => 'root',
    mode   => '0644',
    source => "puppet:///modules/certificates/godaddy-ca.pem"
}

What I can do to manually add the certificate? Typically I've done the following manually to update certificates:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

However, this doesn't work as it requires manual input. How can I automate adding root CA authorities without any manual input?

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I believe you're looking for the update-ca-certificates command. That should not require any user input.

However, you're installing the certificate in the wrong place; you want to put it in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/; that is the directory for locally-added certificates and any added there are automatically trusted.

If you really want to put it in /usr/share/ca-certificates/, you'll have to add it to /etc/ca-certificates.conf (to make it trusted) before calling update-ca-certificates.

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    just a little warning, if your root type update-ca-certificates --refresh it will remove local added CAs
    – confiq
    Aug 2, 2015 at 15:16

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