Authen::Simple::Passwd.3pm

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Version: 2008-03-01 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

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" This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.