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 "ch@ngmedia.com"

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