On 15.06.2020 09:43, Michael Back wrote:
> Hello Subversion folks,
>
> When I upgraded to the latest version of my Linux OS (Ubuntu 20.04)
> and installed Subversion 1.13.0 client, svn could no longer connect to
> our company's old subversion server via https.
>
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053)
> compiled Mar 24 2020, 12:33:36 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Copyright (C) 2019 The Apache Software Foundation.
> This software consists of contributions made by many people;
> see the NOTICE file for more information.
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
>
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>
> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
> protocol.
> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
> - handles 'svn' scheme
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
> - handles 'file' scheme
> * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol
> using serf.
> - using serf 1.3.9 (compiled with 1.3.9)
> - handles 'http' scheme
> - handles 'https' scheme
>
> The following authentication credential caches are available:
>
> * Gnome Keyring
> * GPG-Agent
> * KWallet (KDE)
> $ svn update
> Updating '.':
> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> 'https://something.something.com/repos/something/trunk'
> svn: E120171: Error running context: An error occurred during SSL
> communication
>
> Doing a checkout results in the same error.
>
> The server (I am told) is running RHEL 6.10 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
>
> I understand that the old server is limited to using the old insecure
> TLSv1... I'm not IT though with no power to upgrade the server... and
> I just want to use our internal system. How do I configure the new
> svn to connect to the old server?
I think that TLSv1 is no longer supported by newer versions of OpenSSL.
You'll either have to somehow downgrade OpenSSL on your client (*not*
recommended!) or get your IT to upgrade the server. Which they should've
done years ago.
-- Brane
Received on 2020-06-15 11:29:34 CEST