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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.