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Re: Bug in ra_serf with client certificates

From: Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:37:14 +0100

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> I just got a private report from a user that has a setup with a private
> certificate. This user happened to select the wrong certificate for a
> server, and got the following response:
>
> svn: E120171: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> 'https://example.com/svn/foobar'
> svn: E120171: Error running context: An error occurred during SSL
> communication
>
>
> This the error code E120171 comes from Serf and apparently means
> SERF_ERROR_AUTHN_FAILED. There's corroboration in the server log:
>

120171 = SERF_ERROR_SSL_COMM_FAILED

> [Tue Jan 28 13:32:47 2014] [info] SSL Library Error: 336105671
> error:140890C7:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return
> a certificate No CAs known to server for verification?
>
>
> The bug, as I see it, is that in this case, the command-line client doesn't
> ask for different credentials. Shouldn't we be transforming (or wrapping)
> SERF_ERROR_AUTHN_FAILED to SVN_ERR_RA_NOT_AUTHORIZED?

The command line client doesn't ask for a client certificate, it
should be defined correctly in the servers file using:
ssl-client-cert-file
ssl-client-cert-password

Unless (s)he's using TortoiseSVN which has its own dialog to select
certificates from the windows certificate store.

Lieven

> -- Brane
>
> --
> Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion
> WANdisco // Non-Stop Data
> e. brane_at_wandisco.com
Received on 2014-01-28 14:38:07 CET

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