Re: ssh-agent, PKCS#12, and Subversion


On Fri, May 28, 2010 13:56, Steven Collins wrote:
That is correct. Here is an example of what I'm getting:

$ ssh-add svnCertificate.p12
Enter passphrase for svnCertificate.p12:
Bad passphrase, try again for svnCertificate.p12:
Bad passphrase, try again for svnCertificate.p12:
Bad passphrase, try again for svnCertificate.p12: ^C

$ cd ~/workingDir

svn ls .
Passphrase for '/home/username/.subversion/svnCertificate.p12':
BC.c
Debug32/
...

What happens when you do this?

$ ssh-add /home/username/.subversion/svnCertificate.p12

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