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  Send the "HTTP 403 Forbiden" response.

 CGI::Authent::login [$message]
  Send the "HTTP 401 UnAuthentified" response.

=head2 REMINDER

CGI::Authent doesn't validate the passwords. It cannot even see them. It
just does a few tests and if the tests fail it sends to the user a
request for authentication. But it's the server's task to validate the
credentials passed by the browser.

If you want for example to validate passwords against a database,
consult your servers documentation. You will probably have to install some filter or plugin.
It should be relatively easy to find such beasts on the net. I've written an ISAPI filter for this,
you may get it at http://jenda.krynicky.cz/authfilter.1.0.zip . Take it as an example, not as a solution!

=head2 Guts

All options are parsed and added to the headers before yout test runs,
so you may change the headers from it.