Authen::Simple::PAM(3) 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.

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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