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Authen::Simple::RADIUS(3pm)

Simple RADIUS authentication

NAME

Authen::Simple::RADIUS - Simple RADIUS authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::RADIUS;
    
    my $radius = Authen::Simple::RADIUS->new(
        host   => 'radius.company.com',
        secret => 'secret'
    );
    
    if ( $radius->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::RADIUS
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleRADIUS_host "radius.company.com"
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleRADIUS_pdc  "secret"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::RADIUS
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

RADIUS authentication.

METHODS

•

new

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

•

host

Connection host, can be a hostname or IP address. Defaults to "localhost".

    host => 'ldap.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'
•

port

Connection port, default to 1812.

    port => 1645
•

timeout

Connection timeout, defaults to 10.

    timeout => 20
•

secret

Shared secret. Required.

    secret => 'mysecret'
•

log

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

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

authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Radius.

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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