NAME
    Authen::Simple::PAM - Simple PAM authentication

SYNOPSIS
        use Authen::Simple::PAM;
    
        my $pam = Authen::Simple::PAM->new(
            service => 'login'
        );
    
        if ( $pam->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
            # successfull authentication
        }
    
        # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

        PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
        PerlModule Authen::Simple::PAM

        PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePAM_service "login"

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

DESCRIPTION
    PAM authentication.

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

        * service
                PAM service. Defaults to "login".

                    service => 'sshd'

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

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

    * authenticate( $username, $password )
        Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO
    Authen::Simple.

    Authen::PAM.

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.

