Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory - Simple ActiveDirectory authentication

    use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory;

    my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new( 
        host      => 'ad.company.com',
        principal => 'company.com'
    );

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

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_host      "ad.company.com"
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_principal "company.com"

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

Authenticate against Active Directory.

This implementation differs from Authen::Simple::LDAP in way that it will try to bind directly as the users principial.

* new

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

* host

Connection host, can be a hostname, IP number or a URI. Defaults to localhost.

    host => ldap.company.com
    host => 10.0.0.1
    host => ldap://ldap.company.com:389
    host => ldaps://ldap.company.com

* port

Connection port, default to 389. May be overriden by host if host is a URI.

    port => 389

* timeout

Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

    timeout => 60

* principal

The suffix in users principal, usally the domain or forrest. Required.

    principal => 'company.com'

* log

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

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

* authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Authen::Simple::LDAP.

Authen::Simple.

Net::LDAP.

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

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