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Authen::Simple::Passwd

NAME

Authen::Simple::Passwd - Simple Passwd authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::Passwd;
my $passwd = Authen::Simple::Passwd->new(
path => '/etc/passwd'
);
if ( $passwd->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Passwd
PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePasswd_path "/etc/passwd"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::Passwd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against a passwd file.

METHODS

new

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

path

Path to passwd file to authenticate against. Any standard passwd file that has records separated with newline and fields separated by ":" is supported. First field is expected to be username and second field, plain or encrypted password. Required.

path => '/etc/passwd'
path => '/var/www/.htpasswd'

flock

A boolean to enable or disable the usage of "flock()". Defaults to "d_flock" in Config.

flock => 0

log

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

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

authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure. Authentication attempts with a username that begins with a hyphen "-" will always return false.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

passwd(5).

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch AT ngmedia DOT com"

COPYRIGHT

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

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