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.