SVN and certificates without passphrase

[Weemen]

Hi all

I was wondering if someone could help me out with my svn issues.
First of all I have to admit that I'm pretty new to OSX.

Is it possible with svn on the commandline to use a specific certificate file? I already have the certificate (a .p12 file) but there is no passphrase on it so I can't add it to the keychain. In other words, I want to avoid the keychain in OSX when using SVN

Already thanks for helping

[Whitehill]

Are you trying to access a remote repository? If yes, are you using the "svn+ssh" protocol? If yes again, the authentication is handled by SSH and the OSX keychain doesn't enter the picture. Can you login via SSH to the server of the SVN repository?

[Weemen]

It is a remote repository but it works not by svn+ssh, it uses https. I can't login at the production server but when I log in at the developement server I can do a checkout but that's an other machine.

I did copy the client certificate from the developement server to my osx machine.

I changed the ~/.subversion/servers file and added:
ssl-client-cert-file=/path/to/certfile/certfile.p12
(I tried also without that line and double checked if the path is ok)

I also tried to connect by smartsvn & versions but I'm pretty sure that they both use the keychain although smartsvn does allow me to select a certficate file but eventually I'll get an error

svn: OPTIONS of 'https://url.to.server.tld': Could not read status line: Secure connection truncated (https://url.to.server.tld)

My thoughts were that I might get the rid of the keychain when I use the svn command on the console and there forcing (with a parameter) to use my certificate but I don't know if that's posible.