debian man page for authen::simple::dbm

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Section: 3pm

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

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"
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::DBM(3pm)
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