Maven SSL not working in Linux?

Trying to convince a coworker to use IDEA. He uses Linux and it doesn't seem to be working for him.

Our repository encrypted via SSL and a cert. We pass in the cert via VM parameters to Maven: -Xmx512m -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=key.p12 -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=PKCS12 -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password -Dsun.security.ssl.allowUnsafeRenegotiation=true. Usually this is set in MAVEN_OPTS. Tried doing that in .bashrc and .profile. Tried putting it into the Runner/VM Parameters setting. None of it works. Works via command line mvn though.

Any ideas on how to configure properly?