Authen::Simple::PasswdUser Contributed Perl DocumentaAuthen::Simple::Passwd(3)NAMEAuthen::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 seperated with newline and
fields seperated 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@ngmedia.com"
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.1 2011-07-19 Authen::Simple::Passwd(3)
