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Re: ra_serf not storing client cert creds

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 05:51:09 +0000

Philip Martin wrote on Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:08 +0100:
> I've noticed a feature that seems to be have been lost when we switched
> from neon to serf: serf doesn't store the client cert creds. There are
> two bits of data, the path to the pkcs12 file and the password for the
> private key. The ra_serf library will prompt for these, if
> config:auth:ssl-client-cert-file-prompt is set, but there is no code to
> call svn_auth_save_credentials() and they do not get stored. The
> ra_neon library did store them and all the relevant code is still
> present in the providers.
>
> I can't see any reason for dropping this feature so I think it should be
> reinstated.

Not opposed to reinstating, but curious how come this regression hasn't
been noticed until now. It has been just over five years since we
dropped ra_neon (in 1.8.0). Did some distro only recently upgrade from
1.7 to 1.9 or something?
Received on 2018-07-26 07:51:19 CEST

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