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Re: [TSVN] https + certificate + author keyword

From: Hermann Voßeler <hermann.vosseler_at_baaderbank.de>
Date: 2004-10-04 12:34:03 CEST

> c_inconnu1 wrote:
>> The author seems to be unknown, which may be understandable since i
>> didn't commit with my login but through ssl+certificate. I'm
>> wondering if that comes from Tortoise or SVN itself...
>
SteveKing wrote:
> If you haven't provided an author for committing, then that keyword
> can't be expanded - the author is not known to Subversion. You will
> then also notice that the log doesn't show an author either.
>
> And yes, that's SVN itself, not TSVN.
>

Hello,

this is a known problem with https access and certificates.
SVN doesn't see any author information. So it is rather off
topic, because it is SVN related (my apologies for this)

For our SVN repository, we use a workaround from Martin v. Loewis
to utilize the "CN" info included in the SSL-Certificate as author
information. It is a small apache module and can be compiled and
installed with APXS
(Infos on APXS: see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dso.html )

Regards,
Hermann Vosseler

-------------------

Quote from the announcement mail:
> Subject: Announcing mod_ssl_user
>
> From: Martin v. Löwis (martin_at_v.loewis.de) Date: 2003-06-18
> 20:38:00 CEST
>
> I have just published release 1.0 of mod_ssl_user, at
>
> http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/mod_ssl_user.c
>
> This module allows to set the user field in an Apache request object,
> if a user has been authenticated through SSL. It is configurable
> through a mod_ssl variable name, such as SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN.
>
> With that module, Subversion will write proper author information in
> commit messages.
>
> Any comments appreciated.
>
> Regards, Martin

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