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android14-move-certs.sh
# Create a separate temp directory, to hold the current certificates
# Otherwise, when we add the mount we can't read the current certs anymore.
mkdir -p -m 700 /data/local/tmp/tmp-ca-copy
# Copy out the existing certificates
cp /apex/com.android.conscrypt/cacerts/* /data/local/tmp/tmp-ca-copy/
# Create the in-memory mount on top of the system certs folder
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /system/etc/security/cacerts
# Copy the existing certs back into the tmpfs, so we keep trusting them
mv /data/local/tmp/tmp-ca-copy/* /system/etc/security/cacerts/
# Copy our new cert in, so we trust that too
cp /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added/* /system/etc/security/cacerts/
# Update the perms & selinux context labels
chown root:root /system/etc/security/cacerts/*
chmod 644 /system/etc/security/cacerts/*
chcon u:object_r:system_file:s0 /system/etc/security/cacerts/*
# Android >= 14
# Deal with the APEX overrides, which need injecting into each namespace:
# First we get the Zygote process(es), which launch each app
ZYGOTE_PID=$(pidof zygote || true)
ZYGOTE64_PID=$(pidof zygote64 || true)
# N.b. some devices appear to have both!
# Apps inherit the Zygote's mounts at startup, so we inject here to ensure
# all newly started apps will see these certs straight away:
for Z_PID in "$ZYGOTE_PID" "$ZYGOTE64_PID"; do
if [ -n "$Z_PID" ]; then
nsenter --mount=/proc/$Z_PID/ns/mnt -- \
/bin/mount --bind /system/etc/security/cacerts /apex/com.android.conscrypt/cacerts
fi
done
# Then we inject the mount into all already running apps, so they
# too see these CA certs immediately:
# Get the PID of every process whose parent is one of the Zygotes:
APP_PIDS=$(
echo "$ZYGOTE_PID $ZYGOTE64_PID" | \
xargs -n1 ps -o 'PID' -P | \
grep -v PID
)
# Inject into the mount namespace of each of those apps:
for PID in $APP_PIDS; do
nsenter --mount=/proc/$PID/ns/mnt -- \
/bin/mount --bind /system/etc/security/cacerts /apex/com.android.conscrypt/cacerts &
done
wait # Launched in parallel - wait for completion here
echo "System certificate injected"
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