Authen::Simple::DBM.3pm

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Version: 2006-01-15 (ubuntu - 08/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Authen::Simple::DBM - Simple DBM authentication

SYNOPSIS

     use Authen::Simple::DBM;
     
     my $dbm = Authen::Simple::DBM->new(
         path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
     );
     
     if ( $dbm->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
         # successfull authentication
     }
     
     # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
 
     PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
     PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBM
 
     PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBM_path "/var/db/www/passwd"
 
     <Location /protected>
       PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::DBM
       AuthType          Basic
       AuthName          "Protected Area"
       Require           valid-user
     </Location>
 
 

DESCRIPTION

DBM authentication.

METHODS

new

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

path

Path to DBM file. Usually specified without trailing ".db", ".pag" or ".dir" suffix. Required.

     path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
 
 
type

DBM type. Valid options are: "DB", "GDBM", "NDBM" and "SDBM". Defaults to "SDBM".

     type => 'NDBM'
 
 
CDB

Constant Database

DB

Berkeley DB

GDBM

GNU Database Mandager

NDBM

New Database Mandager. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".db" suffix.

SDBM

Substitute Database Mandager. Comes with both with perl and Apache. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".pag" or ".dir" suffix.

log

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

     log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::DBM')
 
 
authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

htdbm(1)

dbmmanage(1)

<http://www.unixpapa.com/incnote/dbm.html> - Overview of various DBM's.

<http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html> - CDB

AnyDBM_File - Compares different DBM's

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.