NAME

Authen::Simple::SSH - Simple SSH authentication

SYNOPSIS

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>    

DESCRIPTION

SSH authentication.

METHODS

• 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.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Net::SSH::Perl.

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.