importing p7b chain as root in keystore

[levani dvalishvili]

Hi All ! I have an issue with importing signed certificate in my kestore, situation is that I have a certificate that was generated using my csr file. and I have a chain that they sent me with it,but when I try to import chain with command

D:\>c:\j2sdk1.4.2_06\bin\keytool -import -alias root -keystore d:\MyKestore -trustcacerts -file d:\theChainFile.p7b
    

I get error stating :

 keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Input not an X.509 certificate  

is there a way to conver the cert if thats what I need to do?

chain file has 2 certificates in and it says its type is PKCS#7 .
I looked in thawte howto as well as went through jdk keytool doc but so far have not found the solution for it
P.S I also tried to use IE to import and and export but in that case IE spits the certificates and then I cant decide wich on eti import as root I tried both options but did not work.

anyon can advice the solution ?
[ January 25, 2006: Message edited by: levani dvalishvili ]

[levani dvalishvili]

I got it working : here wat I had to do :
since chain had more than one certificate I had to split it with IE and them import both into keystore one under allias root and another under any allias after that it imported the certificate .