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Apache-AuthenNISPlus-0.03
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NAME

Apache::AuthenNISPlus - Authenticate into a NIS+ domain

SYNOPSIS

#httpd.conf
<Location>
  AuthName "your nis+ account"
  AuthType Basic
  PerlSetVar NISPlus_Passwd_Table passwd.org_dir.yoyodyne.com
  PerlSetVar NISPlus_Group_Table group.org_dir.yoyodyne.com
  PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenNISPlus
  require group eng
  require user john larry
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate into a nis+ domain.

This is pretty lame in that it simply executes "/usr/bin/nismatch" with the appropriate arguments. If exposed to an unruly user base, that part should be rewritten to gather output from an underprivileged child instead of letting the shell get involved. An even better answer would probably be to hook into Net::NISPlus, but I could not figure out how to do that in the few hours I had available.

AUTHOR

valerie at savina dot com (Valerie Delane), based more or less on code shamelessly lifted from Doug MacEachern's Apache::AuthNIS.

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

mod_perl(3), Apache(3), nismatch(1)