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 "ch@ngmedia.com"

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

