Re: SSL authentication

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-04-01 00:10:29 CEST

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:

> Is it possible to setup Subversion to use client TLS authentication,
> through mod_ssl?
>
> I.e. the client would not provide a password, but a certificate, which
> the server verifies to be signed properly, and then uses to validate
> permissions, and identify authorship of changes.

Yes. Client and server certificates are now supported by the svn
client, if you check out the latest svn code. (And of course you need
to set up Apache to issue client-cert challenges too.)

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