NAME

Authen::Simple::SSH - Simple SSH authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::SSH;
    
    my $ssh = Authen::Simple::SSH->new(
        host => 'host.company.com'
    );
    
    if ( $ssh->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SSH

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSSH_host "host.company.com"

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

DESCRIPTION

SSH authentication.

METHODS

• new

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

  • host

    Connection host, can be a hostname or IP address. Defaults to localhost.

        host => 'ldap.company.com'
        host => '10.0.0.1'

  • port

    Connection port, default to 22.

        port => 22

  • protocol

    Connection protocol, defaults to 2.

        protocol => 1

  • cipher

    Connection cipher.

        cipher => 'Blowfish'

  • log

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

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

• authenticate( $username, $password )

  Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Net::SSH::Perl.

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.