Authen::Simple::Passwd - Simple Passwd authentication

    use Authen::Simple::Passwd;

    my $passwd = Authen::Simple::Passwd->new( 
        path => '/etc/passwd'
    );

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

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Passwd

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePasswd_path "/etc/passwd"

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

Authenticate against a passwd file.

* new

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

* path

Path to passwd file to authenticate against. Any standard passwd file that has records seperated with newline and fields seperated by : is supported. First field is expected to be username and second field, plain or encrypted password. Required.

    path => '/etc/passwd'
    path => '/var/www/.htpasswd'

* flock

A boolean to enable or disable the usage of flock(). Defaults to d_flock in Config.

    flock => 0

* log

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

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

* authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure. Authentication attempts with a username that begins with a hyphen - will always return false.

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

passwd(5).

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.