Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

       Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

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

perl v5.34.0                                       2022-06-08                           Authen::Simple::PAM(3pm)

       PAM authentication.

       •   new

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

           •       service

                   PAM service. Defaults to "login".

                       service => 'sshd'

           •       log

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

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

       •   authenticate( $username, $password )

           Returns true on success and false on failure.

       Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::PAM.

           use Authen::Simple::PAM;

           my $pam = Authen::Simple::PAM->new(
               service => 'login'
           );

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

           # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

           PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
           PerlModule Authen::Simple::PAM

           PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePAM_service "login"

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