NTLM

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME

Authen::NTLM - An NTLM authentication module

SYNOPSIS

    use Mail::IMAPClient;
    use Authen::NTLM;
    my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(Server=>'imaphost');
    ntlm_user($username);
    ntlm_password($password);
    $imap->authenticate("NTLM", Authen::NTLM::ntlm);
    :
    $imap->logout;
    ntlm_reset;
    :

    ntlmv2(1);
    ntlm_user($username);
    ntlm_host($host);
    ntlm_password($password);
    :

    my $ntlm = Authen::NTLM-> new(
        host     => $host,
        user     => $username,
        domain   => $domain,
        password => $password,
        version  => 1,
    );
    $ntlm-> challenge;
    :
    $ntlm-> challenge($challenge);

DESCRIPTION

    This module provides methods to use NTLM authentication.  It can
    be used as an authenticate method with the Mail::IMAPClient module
    to perform the challenge/response mechanism for NTLM connections
    or it can be used on its own for NTLM authentication with other
    protocols (eg. HTTP).

    The implementation is a direct port of the code from F<fetchmail>
    which, itself, has based its NTLM implementation on F<samba>.  As
    such, this code is not especially efficient, however it will still
    take a fraction of a second to negotiate a login on a PII which is
    likely to be good enough for most situations.

FUNCTIONS

ntlm_domain()

    Set the domain to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new domain.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current domain entry.

ntlm_user()

    Set the username to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new username.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current username entry.

ntlm_password()

    Set the password to use in the NTLM authentication messages.
    Returns the new password.  Without an argument, this function
    returns the current password entry.

ntlm_reset()

    Resets the NTLM challenge/response state machine so that the next
    call to C<ntlm()> will produce an initial connect message.

ntlm()

    Generate a reply to a challenge.  The NTLM protocol involves an
    initial empty challenge from the server requiring a message
    response containing the username and domain (which may be empty).
    The first call to C<ntlm()> generates this first message ignoring
    any arguments.

    The second time it is called, it is assumed that the argument is
    the challenge string sent from the server.  This will contain 8
    bytes of data which are used in the DES functions to generate the
    response authentication strings.  The result of the call is the
    final authentication string.

    If C<ntlm_reset()> is called, then the next call to C<ntlm()> will
    start the process again allowing multiple authentications within
    an application.

ntlmv2()

    Use NTLM v2 authentication.

OBJECT API

new %options: Creates an object that accepts the following options: "user", "host", "domain", "password", "version".
challenge [$challenge]: If $challenge is not supplied, first-stage challenge string is generated. Otherwise, the third-stage challenge is generated, where $challenge is assumed to be extracted from the second stage of NTLM exchange. The result of the call is the final authentication string.

AUTHOR

    David (Buzz) Bussenschutt <davidbuzz@gmail.com> - current maintainer
    Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org> - nice ntlmv2 patch, OO extensions.
    Andrew Hobson <ahobson@infloop.com> - initial ntlmv2 code
    Mark Bush <Mark.Bush@bushnet.demon.co.uk> - perl port
    Eric S. Raymond - author of fetchmail
    Andrew Tridgell and Jeremy Allison for SMB/Netbios code

HISTORY

    1.09 - fix CPAN ticket # 70703
    1.08 - fix CPAN ticket # 39925
    1.07 - not publicly released
    1.06 - relicense as GPL+ or Artistic
    1.05 - add OO interface by Dmitry Karasik
    1.04 - implementation of NTLMv2 by Andrew Hobson/Dmitry Karasik 
    1.03 - fixes long-standing 1 line bug L<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9521> - released by David Bussenschutt 9th Aug 2007 
    1.02 - released by Mark Bush 29th Oct 2001