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)