NAME

Authen::Simple::SMB - Simple SMB authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::SMB;

        my $smb = Authen::Simple::SMB->new( 
            domain => 'DOMAIN', 
            pdc    => 'PDC'
        );
    
        if ( $smb->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
            # successfull authentication
        }
    
        # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
        PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
        PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMB

        PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_domain "DOMAIN"
        PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_pdc    "PDC"

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

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against an SMB server.

METHODS

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

  valid

  • domain

    Domain to authenticate against. Required.

domain => 'NTDOMAIN'

• pdc Primary Domain Controller. Required.

pdc => 'PDC'

• bdc Backup Domain Controller.

bdc => 'BDC'

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

  "warn".

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

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

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Smb.

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.