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"

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

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 "[email protected]"

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