Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory(3) Simple ActiveDirectory authentication

SYNOPSIS


use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory;

my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new(
host => 'ad.company.com',
principal => 'company.com'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_host "ad.company.com"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_principal "company.com"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against Active Directory.

This implementation differs from Authen::Simple::LDAP in way that it will try to bind directly as the users principial.

METHODS

  • new

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

  • host

    Connection host, can be a hostname, IP number or a URI. Defaults to "localhost". 

        host => ldap.company.com
    host => 10.0.0.1
    host => ldap://ldap.company.com:389
    host => ldaps://ldap.company.com
  • port

    Connection port, default to 389. May be overridden by host if host is a URI. 

        port => 389
  • timeout

    Connection timeout, defaults to 60. 

        timeout => 60
  • principal

    The suffix in users principal, usally the domain or forrest. Required. 

        principal => 'company.com'
  • log

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

        log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory')
  • authenticate( $username, $password )

    Returns true on success and false on failure.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "[email protected]"

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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