NAME
   Authen::Simple::SSH - Simple SSH authentication

SYNOPSIS
       use Authen::Simple::SSH;

       my $ssh = Authen::Simple::SSH->new(
           host => 'host.company.com'
       );

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

       # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

       PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
       PerlModule Authen::Simple::SSH

       PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSSH_host "host.company.com"

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

DESCRIPTION
   SSH authentication.

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

       * host  Connection host, can be a hostname or IP address. Defaults
               to "localhost".

                   host => 'ldap.company.com'
                   host => '10.0.0.1'

       * port  Connection port, default to 22.

                   port => 22

       * protocol
               Connection protocol, defaults to 2.

                   protocol => 1

       * cipher
               Connection cipher.

                   cipher => 'Blowfish'

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

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

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

SEE ALSO
   Authen::Simple.

   Net::SSH::Perl.

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.