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Re: Use the SSL personal certificate to instead of username/password

From: M.Chris <sgchris_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:05:28 -0800 (PST)

Hi Stefan:

  Thanks for your reply, yes i know the authorization is done by
subversion not TSVN, but the username information is passed by TSVN to
subversion.
so in other hand my question could be is there a way to set author
information before the commit like propertise setting?

Chris

On Nov 7, 4:49 am, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> M. Chris wrote:
> > Hi All:
>
> >   Lately i have build up a SVN server using apache + subversion +
> > TortoiseSVN. Now everything is working fine with username/password
> > authorization method.
> >   But i am going to use SSL personal certificate to replace
> > username/password authorization method, because this  should be a way
> > more security and simple. I am planning use SSL personal certificate to
> > identify the user. Now everything is ok without any issue except the
> > commits without username. This is true because i never keyed in the
> > username/password during the login, the server always ask personal
> > certificate.
> >   So my question is that are there any ways the TortoiseSVN can get the
> > CN (common name) from SSL personal certificate to fill up the username
> > during commit? because the administrator couldn't know the commit was
> > created by which user without username information and the SSL personal
> > certificate's CN is unique as well.
> >   Thanks.
>
> You should ask on the Subversion mailing list for such a feature. TSVN
> does not do authentication itself: that's done in the svn library.
>
> Stefan
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