How to solve SSL certificate problem with git-svn

[Hiroyuki Sato]

Dear members.

Does anyone know to solve this problem?

I tryied to execute

git config --global sslVerify false

I still got same error.

Thank you for your advice.

Sincerely.

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false svn rebase 
Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.forgerock.org:443':
 - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
 - Hostname: svn.forgerock.org
 - Valid: from Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:59:17 GMT until Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:54:36 GMT
 - Issuer: Secure Digital Certificate Signing, StartCom Ltd., IL
 - Fingerprint: 98:61:f6:3c:2d:d5:0f:b9:6e:b2:a0:d3:be:e5:53:b7:7a:0c:26:3b
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? RA layer request failed: OPTIONS of 'https://svn.forgerock.org/openam/trunk': Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted (https://svn.forgerock.org) at /Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/git_local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 2721

[KieranA · Accepted solution]

Hi Hiroyuki,

This seems like quite a common problem. The first thing I'd try is to try an svn command at the command line, then accept the certificate permanently. To do this you'll want to do the following at the command line:

svn info https://svn.forgerock.org/

It will then prompt you the "(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?" that you've already seen, so enter 'p' and hit enter. After you've done this, then try in SourceTree again.

If the above does not work there's another option noted in this SO post whereby you can change the permissions recursively on ~/.subversion/auth. This is done by doing "chmod -R 777 ~/.subversion/auth". If this doesn't work then your last port of call will be to delete ~/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server and then you'll probably need to carry out the first step I mentioned so as to accept the re-issued certificate permanently.

It's basically because you need to re-issue the certificate. Hopefully that helps, if not, feel free to ask more questions.

[Hiroyuki Sato]

Hello Kieran.

Thank you for your comment.

It works!!.

I executed svn info https://svn.forgerock.org/.

Thank again.

[champdev03]

i tried svn info https://svn.forgerock.org but still i'm getting same error. Server SSL certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted

[Nathaniel Anderson]

Kieran even fixed my connecting from XCode to an SVN server. Thanks!