NAME

       Authen::Simple::DBM - Simple DBM authentication

SYNOPSIS

           use Authen::Simple::DBM;

           my $dbm = Authen::Simple::DBM->new(
               path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
           );

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

           # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

           PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
           PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBM

           PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBM_path "/var/db/www/passwd"

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

DESCRIPTION

       DBM authentication.

METHODS

       •   new

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

           •       path

                   Path to DBM file. Usually specified without trailing ".db", ".pag" or ".dir"
                   suffix. Required.

                       path => '/var/db/www/passwd'

           •       type

                   DBM type. Valid options are: "DB", "GDBM", "NDBM" and "SDBM". Defaults to
                   "SDBM".

                       type => 'NDBM'

                   •           CDB

                               Constant Database

                   •           DB

                               Berkeley DB

                   •           GDBM

                               GNU Database Mandager

                   •           NDBM

                               New Database Mandager. "path" should be specified without a
                               trailing ".db" suffix.

                   •           SDBM

                               Substitute Database Mandager. Comes with both with perl and
                               Apache. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".pag" or
                               ".dir" suffix.

           •       log

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

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

       •   authenticate( $username, $password )

           Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::Simple::Password.

       htdbm(1)

       dbmmanage(1)

       <http://www.unixpapa.com/incnote/dbm.html> - Overview of various DBM's.

       <http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html> - CDB

       AnyDBM_File - Compares different DBM's

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.