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 "[email protected]"

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