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.