bypass ssl certificate validation in subversion

Question

I\'m managing a subversion-based build system and we use a self-signed ssl for the server. So from time to time, we get build failures because a new machine has been added a

Answer 1

Another option is to use expect. Using expect you can simulate a user accepting the certificate. It will work when other options won't. I created this so that I could download code from svn in a Dockerfile.

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set svn_username [lindex $argv 0]
set svn_password [lindex $argv 1]
set svn_url [lindex $argv 2]

spawn svn --username=${svn_username} --password=${svn_password} list ${svn_url}
expect "(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? "
send -- "p\r"
expect "Store password unencrypted (yes/no)? "
send "no\r"
expect -re "root@.*:\/#"