man Catalyst::Authentication::Realm::Progressive (3): Authenticate against multiple realms

SYNOPSIS

This Realm allows an application to use a single authenticate() call during which multiple realms are used and tried incrementally until one performs a successful authentication is accomplished.

A simple use case is a Temporary Password that looks and acts exactly as a regular password. Without changing the authentication code, you can authenticate against multiple realms.

Another use might be to support a legacy website authentication system, trying the current auth system first, and upon failure, attempting authentication against the legacy system.

EXAMPLE

If your application has multiple realms to authenticate, such as a temporary password realm and a normal realm, you can configure the progressive realm as the default, and configure it to iteratively call the temporary realm and then the normal realm.

 __PACKAGE__->config(
    'Plugin::Authentication' => {
        default_realm => 'progressive',
        realms => {
            progressive => {
                class => 'Progressive',
                realms => [ 'temp', 'normal' ],
                # Modify the authinfo passed into authenticate by merging
                # these hashes into the realm's authenticate call:
                authinfo_munge => {
                    normal => { 'type' => 'normal' },
                    temp   => { 'type' => 'temporary' },
                }
            },
            normal => {
                credential => {
                    class => 'Password',
                    password_field => 'secret',
                    password_type  => 'hashed',
                    password_hash_type => 'SHA-1',
                },
                store => {
                    class      => 'DBIx::Class',
                    user_model => 'Schema::Person::Identity',
                    id_field   => 'id',
                }
            },
            temp => {
                credential => {
                    class => 'Password',
                    password_field => 'secret',
                    password_type  => 'hashed',
                    password_hash_type => 'SHA-1',
                },
                store => {
                    class    => 'DBIx::Class',
                    user_model => 'Schema::Person::Identity',
                    id_field   => 'id',
                }
            },
        }
    }
 );

Then, in your controller code, to attempt authentication against both realms you just have to do a simple authenticate call:

 if ( $c->authenticate({ id => $username, password => $password }) ) {
     if ( $c->user->type eq 'temporary' ) {
         # Force user to change password
     }
 }

CONFIGURATION

realms: An array reference consisting of each realm to attempt authentication against, in the order listed. If the realm does not exist, calling authenticate will die.
authinfo_munge: A hash reference keyed by realm names, with values being hash references to merge into the authinfo call that is subsequently passed into the realm's authenticate method. This is useful if your store uses the same class for each realm, separated by some other token (in the EXAMPLE authinfo_mungesection, the 'realm' is a column on "Schema::Person::Identity" that will be either 'temp' or 'local', to ensure the query to fetch the user finds the right Identity record for that realm.

METHODS

new ($realmname, $config, $app)

Constructs an instance of this realm.

authenticate

This method iteratively calls each realm listed in the "realms" configuration key. It returns after the first successful authentication call is done.

AUTHORS

J. Shirley "<[email protected]>"

Jay Kuri "<[email protected]>"