I am starting to look into configuring an SVN server using Apache2 and mod_dav_svn on Red Hat Linux. I want Apache to handle authenticating the users that access the repository. Is there a way to have Apache authenticate against the user credentials maintained by the OS? This way I can allow all of my users on the server to use the same account to access SVN and to login to the system via SSH.
Previously our SVN server was hosted on a Windows server and we were able to use AuthType SSPI to perform our authentication against the Windows Active Directory server which will no longer be available to us. (Note: this is a restriction due to our network security and is not with my control)
Ultimately the solution I found to this problem was to configure mod-authnz_external to work with pwauth. Following the instructions on those two sites seems to have resulted in a working solution.