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 "[email protected]"

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