NAME
Authen::Simple::NIS - Simple NIS authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::NIS;
my $nis = Authen::Simple::NIS->new;
if ( $nis->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::NIS
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleNIS_domain "domain"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::NIS
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION
NIS authentication.
METHODS
new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
domain
NIS domain. Required unless it can be obtained from
yp_get_default_domain()
.domain => 'domain'
map
NIS map. Defaults to
passwd.byname
.map => 'passwd.byname'
log
Any object that supports
debug
,info
,error
andwarn
.log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::NIS')
authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO
ypclnt(3)
.
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.