NAME¶
Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory - Simple ActiveDirectory authentication
SYNOPSIS¶
use Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory;
my $ad = Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory->new(
host => 'ad.company.com',
principal => 'company.com'
);
if ( $ad->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_host "ad.company.com"
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleActiveDirectory_principal "company.com"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION¶
Authenticate against Active Directory.
This implementation differs from Authen::Simple::LDAP in way that it will try to
bind directly as the users principial.
METHODS¶
- •
- new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are
valid:
- •
- host
Connection host, can be a hostname, IP number or a URI. Defaults to
"localhost".
host => ldap.company.com
host => 10.0.0.1
host => ldap://ldap.company.com:389
host => ldaps://ldap.company.com
- •
- port
Connection port, default to 389. May be overridden by host if host is a URI.
port => 389
- •
- timeout
Connection timeout, defaults to 60.
timeout => 60
- •
- principal
The suffix in users principal, usally the domain or forrest. Required.
principal => 'company.com'
- •
- log
Any object that supports "debug", "info",
"error" and "warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::ActiveDirectory')
- •
- authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO¶
Authen::Simple::LDAP.
Authen::Simple.
Net::LDAP.
AUTHOR¶
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"
COPYRIGHT¶
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
