Authen::Simple::SSH - Simple SSH authentication

    use Authen::Simple::SSH;

    my $ssh = Authen::Simple::SSH->new(
        host => 'host.company.com'
    );

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

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SSH

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSSH_host "host.company.com"

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

SSH authentication.

* new

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

* host

Connection host, can be a hostname or IP address. Defaults to localhost.

    host => 'ldap.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'

* port

Connection port, default to 22.

    port => 22

* protocol

Connection protocol, defaults to 2.

    protocol => 1

* cipher

Connection cipher.

    cipher => 'Blowfish'

* log

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

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

* authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Authen::Simple.

Net::SSH::Perl.

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.