SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::SMB;

my $smb = Authen::Simple::SMB->new(
domain => 'DOMAIN',
pdc => 'PDC'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMB
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_domain "DOMAIN"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_pdc "PDC"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMB
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against an SMB server.

METHODS

• new

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

  domain

  Domain to authenticate against. Required.

      domain => 'NTDOMAIN'
  

  pdc

  Primary Domain Controller. Required.

      pdc => 'PDC'
  

  bdc

  Backup Domain Controller.

      bdc => 'BDC'
  

  log

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

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

• 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.