NAME

Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

SYNOPSIS

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>

DESCRIPTION

PAM authentication.

METHODS

• 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.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::PAM.

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.