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.