Subversion: Allow both svn based (passwd file) and windows domain authentication

Question

I have subversion currently set up on Windows to authenticate against our domain controller via Apache. Is it possible to allow authentication against both the domain controller and the subversion passwd file?

To accomplish this, would I have to have apache for windows authentication and also have svnserve run as a service and have that check against the passwd file?

Answer 1

You can tell apache to provide basic authentication (using the passwd file) if the authentication against the domain controller fails.

Set the line

SSPIOfferBasic On

in your <Location> block in the apache config file.

Answer 2

You want to apply mixed authentication. You can use http protocol via Apache for windows authentication and use svn protocol via svnserve to authenticate against passwd file.

you can use Stefan's solution but that does not prevent you from clearly separating different classes of users.