Apache::Authen::Program is a mod_perl module that provides a reasonably general mechanism to perform username/password authentication in Apache by calling an external program. Authentication by an external program is useful when a program can perform an authentication not supported by any Apache modules (for example, cross-domain authentication is not supported by Apache::AuthenNTLM or Apache::AuthenSmb, but is supported by Samba's smbclient program).

Installing Apache::Authen::Program follows the normal CPAN convention:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Remember that after installation, you will need to restart your Apache server to load Apache::Authen::Program.

Please note that in this version of Apache::Authen::Program, "make test" only ensures that the module loads without errors.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Mark Leighton Fisher, Fisher's Creek Consulting, LLC.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.