Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

    use Authen::Simple::PAM;

    my $pam = Authen::Simple::PAM->new(
        service => 'login'
    );

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

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::PAM

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePAM_service "login"

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

PAM authentication.

* new

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

* service

PAM service. Defaults to login.

    service => 'sshd'

* log

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

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

* authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Authen::Simple.

Authen::PAM.

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.