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Apache::AuthCookiePAM is a module that subclasses Apache::AuthCookie and is
designed to be directly used for authentication in a mod_perl server.

It is a ticket-issuing system that looks up username/passwords usin PAM
issues MD5-checksummed tickets valid for a configurable time period.  
Incoming requests with tickets are checksummed and expire-time checked.