Need help in updating Chrome policy on GitHubActions Runner

[ram-wesco]

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Need help in updating Chrome policy on GitHub Actions runner - The runner is a self-hosted Linux Docker container

We are running Selenium Test Automation on GitHub runners. The application that we are testing, has a client authentication certificate. Before we can access the application through web browser, we would be displayed the client auth certificate that we need to choose to proceed to the application home page.

In order for Chrome to automatically choose the certificate, we are trying to add the policy AutoSelectCertificateforUrls

We have created a JSON file for updating the above policy. It is a valid JSON

Here is the JSON :

{
"AutoSelectCertificateForUrls": [{"pattern": "*", "filter":{}}]
}
We tried adding the policy JSON at /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed. But that does not help in updating the Chrome policy - the certificate popup remains open and causes our Selenium scripts to fail.

The policy AutoSelectCertificateForUrls is not updated/added to the Chrome policy - on navigating to chrome://policy, the same is not displayed.

We use setup-chrome job to install the browser, and the chrome location is /opt/hostedtoolcache/setup-chrome/chrome

Please assist on where we need to update the JSON for Chrome to automatically select the client auth certificate.

[nvmaxim]

Try placing your JSON policy in /etc/chromium/policies/managed/ instead, since you're using Linux. Also make sure Chrome is fully restarted after adding the file. If it still doesn't work, you might need to use Chrome's command-line flags like --auto-select-certificate when launching the browser.

[ram-wesco]

We tried placing the JSON in the specified directory and also restarted Chrome. But nothing works

is auto-select-certificate a valid commandline switch

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[ram-wesco]

The issue has been resolved. Policy update seems to be work with Chrome Official build on Linux. With Chrome For Testing build, it is still an issue, A bug has already been logged on Chromium site