How to accept a ssl certificate in a bash or other script?

Question

Normally I use visual svn to setup and configure my svn repositories. By default visual svn uses https on port 8443. I want to create a script that export or checkouts some part of my repositories in a newly created server (cloud server). The only problem I am facing, is that when I try to do the svn export or checkout with the authentication arguments, I need to accept the ssl certificate on https. Is there any bash option to tell the os to accept the certificate?

Thanks a lot, and let me know if you need more information.

Answer 1

You can use a form of:

yes t | svn co --no-auth-cache --username USER --password PASSWORD https://repo directory

to work around this problem.

Answer 2

If you have your own CA, which has signed the server cert; you can trust that ca.

• put CA cert under /etc/ssl/certs
• run c_rehash
• add "ssl-trust-default-ca" within subversion configuration files. See subversion configuration settings

Answer 3

There is no bash option which tells the OS to accept the certificate.

Answer 4

You need to trust the unsigned certificate, or purchase a certificate from a trusted vendor.

Instructions here.