On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:12:10 +0200, Soeren Gerlach
<soeren@all-about-shift.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just "upgraded" my apache https-based repository to a fully
> functional client certificate enabled repository ,-))
> Before the switch I used basic authentication, i.e. user/password based.
> The user - as identified by apache - has been put into the "author"
> field from Subversion which was quite fine. But with the certificate the
> author fields is empty. Is there any way e.g. to fill the DN field from
> the certificate into the author field?
> I found one mail thread on this list, nearly a year old, but no solution
> has been provided?
You can use FakeBasicAuth, which will give you very ugly names (the
full subject of the certificate). I suggested a nice simple fix to the
svn and mod_ssl developers, but they don't seem to see the need for
having a username map to a certificate (I say this based on their
response, which was basically 'who cares').
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Received on Thu Oct 14 22:17:57 2004