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

NAME

Authen::Simple::CDBI - Simple Class::DBI authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::CDBI;
    
    my $cdbi = Authen::Simple::CDBI->new(
        class => 'MyApp::Model::User'
    );
    
    if ( $cdbi->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::CDBI
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_class "MyApp::Model::User"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::CDBI
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Class::DBI authentication.

METHODS

•
new

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

  • class

    Class::DBI subclass. Required.

        class => 'MyApp::Model::User'
  • username

    Name of "username" column. Defaults to "username".

        username => 'username'
  • password

    Name of "password" column. Defaults to "password".

        password => 'password'
  • log

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

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

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Authen::Simple::Password.

Class::DBI.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

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