Thanks, that was the clue I needed...I first ran subversion from a sudo shell which put a root owned ~/.subversion in my home directory.
I'll give you 2 reasons I don't go to a subversion forum: 1) I never used subversion until you guys, somewhat quietly, switched from cvs to subversion. (ie. it's YOUR falt) 2) You guys are helpful! --gene PS This build is letting me connect...I'm OK again with svn 7070! > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Yes, this works. But... >> >> I'm running version 1.3.2 on NetBSD 2.1_Stable. >> >> For some reason though I get the following when I try to update: >> clarity 9 -> svn up >> Error validating server certificate for >> 'https://tor-svn.freehaven.net:443': > Do you have a home directory? Does it have a .subversion directory? a > ~/.subversion/auth/svn.ssl.server? what's in it? Are the directories > writeable? Note that an svn forum, like the svn mailinglist, might be > more helpful. >

