NAME

Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory - Simple ActiveDirectory authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory;

my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new( 
    host      => 'ad.company.com',
    principal => 'company.com'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory

PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_host      "ad.company.com"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_principal "company.com"

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

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against Active Directory.

This implementation differs from Authen::Simple::LDAP in way that it will try to bind directly as the users principial.

METHODS

• new

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

  • host

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

    host => ldap.company.com
    host => 10.0.0.1
    host => ldap://ldap.company.com:389
    host => ldaps://ldap.company.com

  • port

    Connection port, default to 389. May be overriden by host if host is a URI.

    port => 389

  • timeout

    Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

    timeout => 60

  • principal

    The suffix in users principal, usally the domain or forrest. Required.

    principal => 'company.com'

  • log

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

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

• authenticate( $username, $password )

  Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple::LDAP.

Authen::Simple.

Net::LDAP.

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.