On Nov 30, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Michael Carland wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Michael Carland wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have just set up Subversion 1.5.1 (r32289) on Debian Etch with
>>> Apache 2.2.3 and using digest authentication over https.
>>>
>>> I am able to use the command line client from multiple x86_64
>>> Debian machines (both 1.5.1 and 1.4.2 clients), and browse the
>>> repository from my OS X machine with Firefox and Safari.
>>>
>>> However, when I try and connect with either the command line
>>> client (1.5.4 r33841) or Versions (1.0.2 build 53) on my PPC Mac
>>> OS X 10.4.11, authentication fails. The Apache log reports:
>>>
>>> Digest: user mcarland: password mismatch: /svn/tsw
>>>
>>> Using the same clients on my wife's x86 Mac OS X 10.4.11 is
>>> successful.
>>>
>>> Also, if I switch Apache from Digest to Basic authentication, it
>>> works correctly.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions to fix this other than "upgrade" to my wife's Mac?
>>> Is this worthy of logging a defect?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any tips.
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>>
>> I suggest you give the command locale in a terminal window.
>> Compare the result with your wives machine.
>> Different character encodings may explain the difference in logging
>> in,
>> if you use any non-ascii character in your password.
>> The default settings of locale changes depending on your settings
>> under international
>> and your character encoding for terminal windows.
>>
>> Nope, both machine report "C" for locale. And while my initial
>> password had mixed alphanumerics and shift-numeric characters (but
>> still latin ascii), I had also tried an [a-z0-9]+ password with no
>> luck.
>
I seem to remember that there was a bug in some recent versions of
the Apple SSL libraries,
but I can't remember exactly what OS versions and CPU's were
affected. Maybe your system is one
of the affected ones.
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