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Installing user certificates using adb

I am working on a clover station 2016 dev kit, we are in development and not yet ready with certificates signed by external signing authority. In emulator we have installed certificates using
Settings -> Security -> Trusted Credential -> User tab. Since the settings are disables in clover device, is there any other way we can install these certificates. This would be only for development, we would use symantec signed certificates in our prod server.
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Raymond Lee Deactivated answered karthikp commented
Since you need root to install user certificates through adb, the only solution would be to do it programmatically in your app.

You can use android's KeyChain's method KeyChain.createInstallIntent() to bring up a prompt for the user to install the certificate. This stackoverflow question shows how to do so.
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Thanks Raymond, that worked!! :)

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This stackoverflow answer has a method of installing user certificates using adb through bash:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48814971

Edit: As mentioned by @KarthikP, this requires root, so it is not possible to do on our DevKits. See my other answer for the only solution.
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Actually we can't root the clover device right?
Hence the commands given won't work for us. Could you please provide any insight on this?

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Ah, you are correct, I overlooked that you need root to run those commands. I will post another solution.

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