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Authen::Simple::RADIUS(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::RADIUS(3pm)
 

NAME

Authen::Simple::RADIUS - Simple RADIUS authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::RADIUS;
    my $radius = Authen::Simple::RADIUS->new(
        host   => 'radius.company.com',
        secret => 'secret'
    );
    if ( $radius->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::RADIUS
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleRADIUS_host "radius.company.com"
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleRADIUS_pdc  "secret"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::RADIUS
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

RADIUS 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 1812.
    port => 1645
    
* timeout
Connection timeout, defaults to 10.
    timeout => 20
    
* secret
Shared secret. Required.
    secret => 'mysecret'
    
* log
Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::RADIUS')
    
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.
Authen::Radius.

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.
2008-03-01 perl v5.8.8