Can't get Visual SVN server working with self-signed certificate

Question

I have recently upgraded to the latest VisualSVN server (on Windows) and now when I try to connect to it from my Linux svn command line client, I get this error:

   svn: OPTIONS of 'https://server:port/svn': SSL negotiation failed: SSL error: Key usage violation in certificate has been detected.

I've tried downloading the PEM crt file and adding it in ~/.subversion/servers (using the ssl-authority-files) but this does not work either.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Tekken666's suggestion did not work for me since I am on a shared environment (so I can not delete files in /usr/lib).

However, I got around my issue by simply recompiling subversion from the latest code. The problem seems to be that the svn on my hosted server was using a GNU SSL library instead of the default neon SSL library. Neon is less strict than GNU when it comes to certificate issues.

Answer 2

http://andrewbrobinson.com/2011/11/01/fixing-ssl-handshake-failed-ssl-error-key-usage-violation-in-certificate-has-been-detected-error-on-svn-checkout/