NAME

Authen::SASL::Authd - Client authentication via Cyrus saslauthd or Dovecot authentication daemon.

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::SASL::Authd qw(auth_cyrus auth_dovecot);

    # authenticate user against Cyrus saslauthd
    auth_cyrus('login', 'passwd') or die "saslauthd: FAIL";

    # authenticate user against Dovecot authentication daemon
    auth_dovecot('login', 'passwd') or die "dovecot-auth: FAIL";

    # check user existence
    my %user_attr = user_dovecot('login', timeout => 3) or die "dovecot-auth: NO SUCH USER";
    print "user home: $user_attr{home}\n";

DESCRIPTION

The Authen::SASL::Authd package implements LOGIN authentication protocol used by Cyrus saslauthd and PLAIN authentication protocol supported by Dovecot authentication daemon. It can be used to process authentication requests against configured SASL mechanism implemented by Cyrus or Dovecot SASL libraries. It can also be used to check if a particular user exists according to the Dovecot authentication daemon.

METHODS

auth_cyrus( 'LOGIN', 'PASSWD', [ service_name => 'SERVICE_NAME', ] [ timeout => 'TIMEOUT (sec)', ] [ socket => '/SOCK/FILE/NAME', ] )

Check supplied user name and password against Cyrus saslauthd. Return true if authentication succeeded. Die in case of a likely configuration problem.

auth_dovecot( 'LOGIN', 'PASSWD', [ service_name => 'SERVICE_NAME', ] [ timeout => 'TIMEOUT (sec)', ] [ socket => '/SOCK/FILE/NAME', ] )

Check supplied user name and password against Dovecot authentication daemon. Return true if authentication succeeded. Die in case of a likely configuration problem.

user_dovecot( 'LOGIN', [ service_name => 'SERVICE_NAME', ] [ timeout => 'TIMEOUT (sec)', ] [ socket => '/SOCK/FILE/NAME', ] )

Check if supplied user name exists according to the Dovecot authentication daemon. Return a reference to the hashtable (or the hashtable in list context) with optional user attributes if the user exists, undef (or empty list in list context) otherwise. The hashtable can contain such attributes as 'home', 'gid', 'uid', etc defined by the Dovecot SASL implementation. Die in case of a likely configuration problem.

AUTHOR

Alex Protasenko http://www.bkmks.com/

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright 2007 by Alex Protasenko.

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