I have some usernames which contain the '=' character, and I can't figure out how to refer to them in the authz file.
I'm using Apache2 to serve a subversion repository, and I'm using client certificates with FakeBasicAuth. This means that a user has to provide a client certificate, and Apache takes the subject line of the certificate, and uses that as the username. For example, a username might be "/CN=Damon Wischik". I've tried all the ways of escaping/quoting I can think of (single quotes, double quotes, backtick, double the equal sign, \=), but all of them lead to an Apache error message like "Failed to load the AuthzSVNAccessFile: The character 'D' in rule '/CN' is not allowed in authz rules". I've seen some previous questions here about "How do I escape @ in authz?" and "How do I escape [] in authz?" but no answer apart from a discussion about patching which was beyond me. Slightly off-topic -- if I can't have usernames with '=' in authz, does anyone know how to tell Apache FakeBasicAuth to use something else for its username, or is there a way to get authz to do username cleaning/munging before it tests access? Thanks, Damon.
