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The C<Authen::Krb5::Simple> module provides a means to authenticate a
user/password using Kerberos 5 protocol.  The module's authenticate function
takes a username (or user@kerberos_realm) and a password, and authenticates
that user using the local Kerberos 5 installation.  It was initially created
to allow perl scripts to perform authentication against a Microsoft Active
Directory (AD) server configured to accept Kerberos client requests.

B<It is important to note:> This module only performs simple authentication.
It does not get, grant, use, or retain any kerberos tickets.  It will check
user credentials against the Kerberos server (as configured on the local
system) each time the I<authenticate> method is called.

=head1 CONSTRUCTOR

B<new>

=over

The I<new> method creates the I<Authen::Krb5::Simple> object.  It can take an
optional argument hash.  At present the only recognized argument is C<realm>.