Bug 478883

Summary:	Subversion fails to handle client certificates
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch>
Component:	neon	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	dzila, hardi.rokk, jorton, rjb, rkisilenko, shamardin, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Kevin L. Mitchell 2009-01-05 20:33:14 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a subversion repository where I have limited access such that connecting clients must present a valid client certificate. I can successfully browse the repository with Firefox on Fedora 10 once I import the appropriate client certificate. However, subversion is unable to access the repository; a sample error message (with URL obscured) follows:

[klmitch@kev-mobile programming]$ svn update
svn: OPTIONS of 'https://xxx.example.com/svn/programming/trunk': Could not read status line: SSL error: Rehandshake was requested by the peer. (https://xxx.example.com)

This same thing worked fine from a different machine running FC8 (before I upgraded it to FC10). My .subversion/servers file contains appropriate entries for the server in question, so I doubt that's the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

subversion-1.5.4-3.x86_64

How reproducible:

None of my client certificate-secured subversion repositories can be accessed.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a client certificate-secured subversion repository.
2. Set up the subversion client to have the appropriate entries in .subversion/servers
3. Attempt to access the secured subversion repository.

Actual results:

The subversion client is unable to access the subversion repository.

Expected results:

Subversion should be able to access the repository.

Additional info:

A Google search on the error message turned up a Debian bug which is probably related. The relevant URL is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480041. The executive summary appears to be that subversion fails with this error if using libneon27-gnutls, but works fine if using libneon27, suggesting a gnutls bug or perhaps a libneon bug related to using gnutls.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2009-01-30 13:01:27 UTC

It looked like this is a gnutls bug but I didn't prove this conclusively, so at most it's a neon bug.

Comment 2 Dimitris 2009-02-03 16:59:12 UTC

Hi,

I am willing to test ant rpms that fix/workaround this.

Comment 3 Lev Shamardin 2009-06-02 17:55:14 UTC

I confirm the same problem and I am willing to test any rpms that could fix this.

Comment 4 Robert Brown 2009-08-02 06:44:19 UTC

I can confirm this is a problem on a standard subversion repo with just a username+password. The repo is hosted on an SSL web server but does not use client certificates. Again in my case this worked fine on a Fedora 8 box with that subversion client but this one won't connect, and I get this:
svn: OPTIONS of 'https://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk': could not connect to server (https://svn.collab.net)

It's the same error for every https/ssl repo. I just used that one as a trial. No network packets are sent as I started a sniffer trace, so this dies somewhere before it hits the wire.

Looks like the debian folks found and fixed this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531338

It seems to be resolved in a later release of neon.

Comment 5 Robert Brown 2009-08-02 06:44:52 UTC

Oh and I am on Fedora 11 with all of the latest updates as of today.

Comment 6 Robert Brown 2009-08-02 06:53:11 UTC

I can confirm that the neon in the latest development/rawhide bundle fixes this issue. The fix for me was:

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/source/SRPMS/neon-0.28.5-2.fc12.src.rpm
rpm -i neon-0.28.5-2.fc12.src.rpm
rpmbuild -bb neon.spec
rpm -U neon-0.28.5-2.fc11.i586.rpm

The maintainer may want to consider updating the FC11 release of neon to this version.

Comment 7 Joe Orton 2009-08-03 07:47:30 UTC

Robert: if you're seeing this fixed in 0.28.5, it's a slightly different to that tracked here.

There are 0.28.5 packages on their way to stable updates:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7680

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