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authen::sasl::perl::login

Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN(3)

NAME

       Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN - Login Authentication class

SYNOPSIS

	 use Authen::SASL qw(Perl);

	 $sasl = Authen::SASL->new(
	   mechanism => 'LOGIN',
	   callback  => {
	     user => $user,
	     pass => $pass
	   },
	 );

DESCRIPTION

       This method implements the client and server part of the LOGIN SASL algorithm, as described in IETF Draft
       draft-murchison-sasl-login-XX.txt.

   CALLBACK
       The callbacks used are:

       Client

       user
	   The username to be used for authentication

       pass
	   The user's password to be used for authentication

       Server

       getsecret(username)
	   returns the password associated with "username"

       checkpass(username, password)
	   returns true and false depending on the validity of the credentials passed in arguments.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::SASL, Authen::SASL::Perl

AUTHORS

       Software written by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, documentation written by Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de>.  Server support by Yann
       Kerherve <yannk@cpan.org>

       Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mailing list <perl-ldap@perl.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Graham Barr.  All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

       Documentation Copyright (c) 2004 Peter Marschall.  All rights reserved.	This documentation is distributed, and may be redistributed, under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

       Server support Copyright (c) 2009 Yann Kerherve.  All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.

POD ERRORS

       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

       Around line 175:
	   Unknown directive: =over4

       Around line 177:
	   '=item' outside of any '=over'

perl v5.18.2							    2010-06-02					      Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN(3)