Authen::Simple::PAM.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2006-01-12 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

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