NAME¶
Authen::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.
