NAME

Authen::Simple::NIS - Simple NIS authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::NIS;

my $nis = Authen::Simple::NIS->new;

        if ( $nis->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
            # successfull authentication
        }
    
        # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

        PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
        PerlModule Authen::Simple::NIS

        PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleNIS_domain "domain"

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

DESCRIPTION

NIS authentication.

METHODS

• new This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are

  valid

  • domain

    NIS domain. Required unless it can be obtained from "yp_get_default_domain()".

domain => 'domain'

• map NIS map. Defaults to "passwd.byname".

map => 'passwd.byname'

• log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and

  "warn".

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

• authenticate( $username, $password ) Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Net::NIS.

Net::NIS::Table.

ypclnt(3).

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.