diff --git a/pymods/irods_utils/irods_utils.py b/pymods/irods_utils/irods_utils.py
index cbbb2952fd6c00a8eacb28761a42f0d9268d16cd..73ecb3f6f78afe63680676e228896cd42b8df76e 100644
--- a/pymods/irods_utils/irods_utils.py
+++ b/pymods/irods_utils/irods_utils.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import irods.test.helpers as helpers
 import irods.exception as irods_ex
 
 def get_irods_session_from_cred_yaml( cred_file_name,
+                                      cafile='/irods_ssl_ca_certificate_file',
                                       time_out_secs=None ):
 
     logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -46,10 +47,14 @@ def get_irods_session_from_cred_yaml( cred_file_name,
     user=cred_file_list["user"]
     password=cred_file_list["password"]
 
-    return get_irods_session( host, port, zone, user, password, time_out_secs=time_out_secs)
+    return get_irods_session( host, port, zone, user, password,
+                              cafile=cafile,
+                              time_out_secs=time_out_secs)
 
 
-def get_irods_session( host, port, zone, user, password, do_not_block=False, time_out_secs=None ):
+def get_irods_session( host, port, zone, user, password,
+                       cafile='/irods_ssl_ca_certificate_file',
+                       do_not_block=False, time_out_secs=None ):
     logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
     backoff = 0
@@ -59,7 +64,7 @@ def get_irods_session( host, port, zone, user, password, do_not_block=False, tim
         irods_sesh = None
         try:
             ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context(purpose=ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH,
-                                                     cafile='/irods_ssl_ca_certificate_file',
+                                                     cafile=cafile,
                                                      capath=None,
                                                      cadata=None)
 
@@ -512,7 +517,7 @@ def confirmed_put( irods_sesh, file_pathname, new_obj_ipath, metadata_dict=None,
 
 
 # Bring in the experiment validation code
-sys.path.append('/home/mradmin/mrdata-common-public/pymods/mrdata_irods_config')
+sys.path.append('../mrdata_irods_config')
 import mrdata_irods_config as miconf
 
 
@@ -560,7 +565,13 @@ def SetupExperimentInIRODS( irods_sesh, irods_zone, irods_user, exp_dict, logger
     return True, "Succeed"
 
 
-sys.path.append('/home/mradmin/mrdata-common-public/pymods/experiment_id')
+print( "os.path[0]: " + sys.path[0] )
+import pathlib
+pypath = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+print( f"pypath {pypath}" )
+modpath = os.path.join( pypath, "../experiment_id" )
+print( f"modpath: {modpath}" )
+sys.path.append( modpath )
 import experiment_id as exp_id_fx