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Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)

Simple PAM authentication

NAME

Authen::Simple::PAM - 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.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::PAM.

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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