NAME Authen::Simple::NIS - Simple NIS authentication SYNOPSIS use Authen::Simple::NIS; my $nis = Authen::Simple::NIS->new; if ( $nis->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) { # successfull authentication } # or as a mod_perl Authen handler PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache PerlModule Authen::Simple::NIS PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleNIS_domain "domain" PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::NIS AuthType Basic AuthName "Protected Area" Require valid-user DESCRIPTION NIS authentication. METHODS * new This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid: * domain NIS domain. Required unless it can be obtained from "yp_get_default_domain()". domain => 'domain' * map NIS map. Defaults to "passwd.byname". map => 'passwd.byname' * log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn". log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::NIS') * authenticate( $username, $password ) Returns true on success and false on failure. SEE ALSO Authen::Simple. Net::NIS. Net::NIS::Table. ypclnt(3). 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.