[SVN-2391] Client certificate authentication fails when using localized SVN client texts

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.x
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: translations
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 30/Aug/05 12:42
• Updated: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

Scenario: SVN 1.2.3 client (Windows XP, "German" locale) tries to
access SVN 1.2.3 Server (Apache 2.0.54, Linux). Authentication is
based on client certificates only, no name/password authentication
is allowed. "SSLUserName SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN" is used to extract the
client's user name, "AuthzSVNAccessFile" defines access to SVN
repositories.

Observation 1: when the SVN client uses localized messages from
"share\locale\de", Apache returns "403 forbidden" for each attempt
to access the SVN repository. Apache logs shows no user name, which
I interpret as a problem when trying to extract certficiate data.

Observation 2: when the folder "share" is deleted or renamed, access
to the SVN repository is working without problems. Apache logs show
the user name as it is defined in the client certificate.

The issue was discussed in the SVN user mailing list (please see
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=37509
and the followups for Apache log excerpts etc.) and I was asked to
file a bug report.

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=37509

Original issue reported by seichter