#NAME

Authen::Simple::Passwd - Simple Passwd authentication

#SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Simple::Passwd;

my $passwd = Authen::Simple::Passwd->new( 
    path => '/etc/passwd'
);

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

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Passwd

PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePasswd_path "/etc/passwd"

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

#DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against a passwd file.

#METHODS

new

This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
- path
  
  Path to passwd file to authenticate against. Any standard passwd file that has records seperated with newline and fields seperated by : is supported. First field is expected to be username and second field, plain or encrypted password. Required.
```
path => '/etc/passwd'
path => '/var/www/.htpasswd'
```
- flock
  
  A boolean to enable or disable the usage of flock(). Defaults to d_flock in Config.
```
flock => 0
```
- log
  
  Any object that supports debug, info, error and warn.
```
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::Passwd')
```
authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure. Authentication attempts with a username that begins with a hyphen - will always return false.

#SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

passwd(5).

#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.