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NTLM(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation NTLM(3pm)

NAME

Authen::NTLM - An NTLM authentication module

SYNOPSIS

    use Mail::IMAPClient;
    use Authen::NTLM;
    my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(Server=>'imaphost');
    ntlm_user($username);
    ntlm_password($password);
    $imap->authenticate("NTLM", Authen::NTLM::ntlm);
    :
    $imap->logout;
    ntlm_reset;
    :

or

    ntlmv2(1);
    ntlm_user($username);
    ntlm_host($host);
    ntlm_password($password);
    :

or

    my $ntlm = Authen::NTLM-> new(
        host     => $host,
        user     => $username,
        domain   => $domain,
        password => $password,
        version  => 1,
    );
    $ntlm-> challenge;
    :
    $ntlm-> challenge($challenge);

DESCRIPTION

    This module provides methods to use NTLM authentication.  It can
    be used as an authenticate method with the Mail::IMAPClient module
    to perform the challenge/response mechanism for NTLM connections
    or it can be used on its own for NTLM authentication with other
    protocols (eg. HTTP).
    The implementation is a direct port of the code from F<fetchmail>
    which, itself, has based its NTLM implementation on F<samba>.  As
    such, this code is not especially efficient, however it will still
    take a fraction of a second to negotiate a login on a PII which is
    likely to be good enough for most situations.

FUNCTIONS

    Set the domain to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new domain.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current domain entry.
    
    Set the username to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new username.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current username entry.
    
    Set the password to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new password.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current password entry.
    
    Resets the NTLM challenge/response state machine so that the next
    call to C<ntlm()> will produce an initial connect message.
    
    Generate a reply to a challenge.  The NTLM protocol involves an
    initial empty challenge from the server requiring a message
    response containing the username and domain (which may be empty).
    The first call to C<ntlm()> generates this first message ignoring
    any arguments.
    The second time it is called, it is assumed that the argument is
    the challenge string sent from the server.  This will contain 8
    bytes of data which are used in the DES functions to generate the
    response authentication strings.  The result of the call is the
    final authentication string.
    If C<ntlm_reset()> is called, then the next call to C<ntlm()> will
    start the process again allowing multiple authentications within
    an application.
    
    Use NTLM v2 authentication.

OBJECT API

Creates an object that accepts the following options: "user", "host", "domain", "password", "version".
If $challenge is not supplied, first-stage challenge string is generated. Otherwise, the third-stage challenge is generated, where $challenge is assumed to be extracted from the second stage of NTLM exchange. The result of the call is the final authentication string.

AUTHOR

    David (Buzz) Bussenschutt <davidbuzz@gmail.com> - current maintainer
    Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org> - nice ntlmv2 patch, OO extensions.
    Andrew Hobson <ahobson@infloop.com> - initial ntlmv2 code
    Mark Bush <Mark.Bush@bushnet.demon.co.uk> - perl port
    Eric S. Raymond - author of fetchmail
    Andrew Tridgell and Jeremy Allison for SMB/Netbios code

SEE ALSO

perl, Mail::IMAPClient, LWP::Authen::Ntlm

HISTORY

    1.09 - fix CPAN ticket # 70703
    1.08 - fix CPAN ticket # 39925
    1.07 - not publicly released
    1.06 - relicense as GPL+ or Artistic
    1.05 - add OO interface by Dmitry Karasik
    1.04 - implementation of NTLMv2 by Andrew Hobson/Dmitry Karasik 
    1.03 - fixes long-standing 1 line bug L<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9521> - released by David Bussenschutt 9th Aug 2007 
    1.02 - released by Mark Bush 29th Oct 2001
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