Authen...Passwd(3pm)

💖 Authen::Simple::Passwd 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Authen...Passwd(3pm) glow-up ✨ this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page for Authen::Simple::Passwd, aka Simple Passwd authentication. she's lowkey tiny but she's doing exactly one job and doing it cute. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Authen::Simple::Passwd — Simple Passwd authentication 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

    use Authen::Simple::Passwd;

    my $passwd = Authen::Simple::Passwd->new(
        path => '/etc/passwd'
    );

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

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Passwd

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePasswd_path "/etc/passwd"

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

like. she said "here's the basic vibe, and also here's me being a mod_perl Authen handler if that's your era." main character energy honestly 👑

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Authenticate against a passwd file. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap. 🔥

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🫶 METHODS 🫶

• new

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

• path

Path to passwd file to authenticate against. Any standard passwd file that has records separated with newline and fields separated by ":" is supported. First field is expected to be username and second field, plain or encrypted password. Required.

    path => '/etc/passwd'
    path => '/var/www/.htpasswd'

• flock

A boolean to enable or disable the usage of "flock()". Defaults to "d_flock" in Config.

    flock => 0

• log

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

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

• authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure. Authentication attempts with a username that begins with a hyphen "-" will always return false. like, don't even try it babe. 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Authen::Simple.
• Authen::Simple::Password.
• passwd(5).

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com" 🫶

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up, go authenticate something responsibly ✨

and for the record this was the perl v5.34.0 girlies' edition, dated 2022-06-08, filed under Authen...Passwd(3pm) 💖 bye bestie, ily, go read passwd(5) 🦋🌸