[CONTINUUM-2133] ability to register Subversion server SSL certificates from within continuum

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.3
• Component/s: SCM
• Labels: backlog-to-cleanup
• Environment: Linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Felix Röthenbacher
• Created: 16/Mar/09 21:19
• Updated: 20/Nov/12 01:09

Description

Updating from a Subversion repository using https with a SSL certificate which needs to be accepted first fails when run under a different user (run-as-user).

The shell start script for Continuum has an option to run Continuum as a different user. The problem is that su preserves the current environment not
setting the HOME environment variable to the run-as user's home. Hence svn does not pickup any permanently accepted SSL certificates under the users
$HOME/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server/ directory.

Workaround is to specify the HOME directory of the user running Continuum in the startup script.

Alternatively, the su command could use a direct login shell instead of preserving the current environment but not sure if there are any
security issues to consider.