RE: Windows SSL Error

For those Linux servers that I've tried this on, the ~/.subversion/servers file is the default one that is created with a brand new install. There are no entries under [global] or [groups].

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcorvel_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:49 PM
To: Platz, Steve
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Windows SSL Error

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Platz, Steve <Steve_Platz_at_lord.com> wrote:
> Our Entrust SSL certificate recently expired and was replaced with a
> new one utilizing a certificate chain.  Since installing the new
> certificate, access to a front-end website using this same certificate has been unaffected.
> However, we're now seeing issues when we attempt to check
> out/update/browse/etc the repository using Windows (XP/7). In Windows,
> using version 1.6.16, I'm getting the following error:
>
>
>
>                 C:\Users\steve_platz>svn info
> https://path/to/repository
>
> Error validating server certificate for 'https://path/to/repository:443':
>
> - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
> fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
>
> Certificate information:
>
>                - Hostname: my.website.com
>
>                - Valid: from Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:52:34 GMT until Fri,
> 05 Jun
> 2015 23:15:02 GMT
>
>
>
>                - Issuer: (c) 2009 Entrust, Inc., www.entrust.net/rpa
> is incorporated by reference, Entrust, Inc., US
>
>                - Fingerprint:
> 96:b4:fa:19:bd:4a:ec:c2:bc:19:33:b8:25:2a:0a:47:28:41:07:d0
>
> (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? T
>
>
>
> Running the above (svn info) from a Linux machine works as you would
> expect it to, without certificate errors. Is this a bug with the
> Windows client or have I set something up incorrectly?

Just guessing, but maybe the Linux machine (only your account, or
system-wide) has been configured to trust the Issuer's certificate as a trusted certificate authority (thus automatically trusting every certificate issued by that CA), and your Windows machine hasn't.

This can be configured on the client side, with the property ssl-authority-files
- For the user in ~/.subversion/servers
- System-wide in /etc/subversion/servers

See for more info:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.servers

You can do the same on Windows (also system-wide, I think that only works via the Registry, but see the book for more details).

HTH,

--
Johan