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" and
"warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::NIS')
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple.
Net::NIS.
Net::NIS::Table.
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.