Authen::Simple::FTP(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::FTP(3pm)

Authen::Simple::FTP - Simple FTP authentication

    use Authen::Simple::FTP;
    
    my $ftp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new( 
        host => 'ftp.company.com'
    );
    
    if ( $ftp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::FTP
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleFTP_host "ftp.company.com"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::FTP
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

Authenticate against a FTP service.

•
new

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

  • host

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

        host => 'ftp.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'
  • port

    Connection port, default to 21.

        port => 21
  • timeout

    Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

        timeout => 60
  • log

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

        log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::FTP')
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authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Authen::Simple.

Net::FTP.

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

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

2022-06-08 perl v5.34.0