Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)       User Contributed Perl Documentation       Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)



NAME
       Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

SYNOPSIS
           use Authen::Simple::PAM;

           my $pam = Authen::Simple::PAM->new(
               service => 'login'
           );

           if ( $pam->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
               # successfull authentication
           }

           # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

           PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
           PerlModule Authen::Simple::PAM

           PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePAM_service "login"

           <Location /protected>
             PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::PAM
             AuthType          Basic
             AuthName          "Protected Area"
             Require           valid-user
           </Location>

DESCRIPTION
       PAM authentication.

METHODS
       ·   new

           This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

           ·       service

                   PAM service. Defaults to "login".

                       service => 'sshd'

           ·       log

                   Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

                       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::PAM')

       ·   authenticate( $username, $password )

           Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO
       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::PAM.

AUTHOR
       Christian Hansen "ch AT ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT
       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.10.0                                2006-01-12                   Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)