01-02-2012
Quote:
In shadow file all Application accounts which are not locked must contain only an asterisk “*” in the Passwd field.
This statement is ambiguous and makes no sense. When there is a password in the Shadow File the password field in the Password File is an asterisk.
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authen::simple::passwd
Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm)
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 seper-
ated 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.
perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm)