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

NAME

Authen::Simple::SMB - Simple SMB authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::SMB;
    
    my $smb = Authen::Simple::SMB->new( 
        domain => 'DOMAIN', 
        pdc    => 'PDC'
    );
    
    if ( $smb->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMB
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_domain "DOMAIN"
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMB_pdc    "PDC"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMB
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against an SMB server.

METHODS

•
new

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

  • domain

    Domain to authenticate against. Required.

        domain => 'NTDOMAIN'
  • pdc

    Primary Domain Controller. Required.

        pdc => 'PDC'
  • bdc

    Backup Domain Controller.

        bdc => 'BDC'
  • log

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

        log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::SMB')
•
authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Smb.

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.

2022-06-08 perl v5.34.0