Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)

NAME

       Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

SYNOPSIS

	   use Authen::Simple::PAM;

	   my $pam = Authen::Simple::PAM->new(
	       service => 'login'
	   );

	   if ( $pam->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
	       # successfull authentication
	   }

	   # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::PAM

	   PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePAM_service "login"

	   <Location /protected>
	     PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::PAM
	     AuthType	       Basic
	     AuthName	       "Protected Area"
	     Require	       valid-user
	   </Location>

DESCRIPTION

       PAM authentication.

METHODS

       o   new

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

	   o	   service

		   PAM service. Defaults to "login".

		       service => 'sshd'

	   o	   log

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

		       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::PAM')

       o   authenticate( $username, $password )

	   Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::PAM.

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 v5.10.0							    2006-01-12						  Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)