Accepting SSL certificates

I am trying to set Subversion to use https. I have already acquired a certificate from the company CA and set everything up in Apache.

If if use https the I am asked to accept that the certificate comes from a trusted authority. If I accept it everything works.

So, I have been instructed to download the company certificate and I'm trying to set it as a trusted CA. I have added the following to ~/.subversion/servers

ssl-authority-files = /home/svn/LDS.crt

It's not .pem, but I have been told that it is PEM-encoded. However, if I try with https I get the following error

svn: Invalid config: unable to load certificate file '/home/svn/LDS.crt'

I thought it was a permission issue but the file was readable by everyone, and the user who runs Apache is svn as well so Apache (if involved at all) can read it too.

The server is CentOS 5, SVN is 1.6.9 and Apache is 2.2.13.

Finally, I know I could accept it permanently but eventually I want to set the ssl-authority-files parameter on the system-wide subversion configuration so that all users automatically accept it.

Thanks
Giulio

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Received on 2010-07-08 11:37:48 CEST