NAME

Authen::Simple::Kerberos - Simple Kerberos authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::Kerberos;

my $kerberos = Authen::Simple::Kerberos->new(
    realm => 'REALM.COMPANY.COM'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Kerberos

PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleKerberos_realm "REALM.COMPANY.COM"

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

DESCRIPTION

Kerberos authentication.

METHODS

• new

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

  • realm

    Kerberos realm.

    realm => 'REALM.COMPANY.COM'

  • log

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

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

• authenticate( $username, $password )

  Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Krb5::Simple.

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.