SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::DBM;

my $dbm = Authen::Simple::DBM->new(
path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBM
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBM_path "/var/db/www/passwd"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::DBM
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

DBM authentication.

METHODS

• new

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

  path

  Path to DBM file. Usually specified without trailing ".db", ".pag" or ".dir" suffix. Required.

      path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
  

  type

  DBM type. Valid options are: "DB", "GDBM", "NDBM" and "SDBM". Defaults to "SDBM".

      type => 'NDBM'
  

  CDB

  Constant Database

  DB

  Berkeley DB

  GDBM

  GNU Database Mandager

  NDBM

  New Database Mandager. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".db" suffix.

  SDBM

  Substitute Database Mandager. Comes with both with perl and Apache. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".pag" or ".dir" suffix.

  log

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

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

• 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.