>All users in my company are on Windows, it just that we house some Linux servers in the server room, which is where SAMBA comes into it I presume - I ain't an admin guy :).
>
>I've come across PAM which can be used by APache to authenticate against. You here of this?
>
>
>Yes, PAM stands for Pluggable Authentication Modules which is the Linux
>standard for authorization and authentication of users for various
>services against various backends. That's where "pluggable" comes in --
>as long as the auth service speaks PAM, you could convert from using,
>say, the /etc/passwd file to SAMBA or LDAP (which is probably what your
>SAMBA setup is actually using on the backend) or anything else and none
>of your services will even notice the change.
>If SAMBA is already working for logins, you're most of the way there.
>All you need now is mod_auth_pam on your Apache server, then an
>"AuthPAM_Enabled on" directive to control your Subversion <Location>
>block or virtual server or however you have it set up, along with
>"Require user <user-list>" or "Require valid-user", etc. See
><http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/> for download and
>configuration info.
>Then, in /etc/pam.d, you will need a file named "httpd" (I think the
>mod_auth_pam creates one by default) that looks like the following:
>#%PAM-1.0
>auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>This tells mod_auth_pam to "bubble up" requests for authorization to the
>"system-auth" service (which should already exist in /etc/pam.d).
>Basically, this means that if they can log in to the Linux box, they can
>authenticate in Apache. You can winnow down this list using "Require
>User" or "Require Group" in httpd.conf if you don't want everyone to be
>able to commit.
Uhm, just to note that SVN Subversion will be installed on a new Windows Server 2003 machine, and so will Apache2 server.
Will this be a problem? Because looking at the website you provided, its seems the mod_auth_pam module is obnly available for Linux.
Thanks
Tryst
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