NAME

Authen::Simple::SMB - Simple SMB authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::SMB;

my $smb = Authen::Simple::SMB->new( 
    domain => 'DOMAIN', 
    pdc    => 'PDC'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMB

PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_domain "DOMAIN"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_pdc    "PDC"

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

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against an SMB server.

METHODS

• new

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

  • domain

    Domain to authenticate against. Required.

    domain => 'NTDOMAIN'

  • pdc

    Primary Domain Controller. Required.

    pdc => 'PDC'

  • bdc

    Backup Domain Controller.

    bdc => 'BDC'

  • log

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

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

• authenticate( $username, $password )

  Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Smb.

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.