Nuclear Rooster

Using Subversion SCPlugin with an untrusted SSL certificate

SCPlugin adds handy subversion tools to your OS X context menu. Its great for PM's, designers, moms (really? no) or anybody else who doesn't grok dot grok dot com the efficiency of the command line.

Or, at least, its great until you install it and it doesn't work for a... well it just doesn't work, something about "PROPFIND Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted". Ok, granted I didn't update the self-signed SSL in a year, but its perfectly secure, and I'm not going to pay for this.

This little trick will get you going:

nick$ svn info https://my.repo.com/path_to_repo
Error validating server certificate for 'https://my.repo.com:443':
 - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
 - Hostname: my.repo.com
 - Valid: from Thu, 07 May 2009 08:23:36 GMT until Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:23:36 GMT
 - Issuer: dev, Somebody
 - Fingerprint: 7d:ac:37:52:fe:e9:3f:df:c7:1f:b4:cd:5d:d6:58:0c:29:62:92:4c
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p

That helps, but also run that for root, which I think is what SCPlugin is using at some level:

nick$ sudo svn info https://my.repo.com/path_to_repo