VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

use base qw(CGI::Application);
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication;
__PACKAGE__->authen->config(
DRIVER => [ 'CDBI',
CLASS => 'My::CDBI::Users',
FIELD_METHODS => [qw(user MD5:passphrase)]
],
CREDENTIALS => [qw(auth_username auth_password)],
);

DESCRIPTION

This Authentication driver uses the Class::DBI module to allow you to authenticate against any Class::DBI class.

PARAMETERS

The Class::DBI authentication driver accepts the following required parameters.

CLASS (required)

Specifies the Class::DBI class to use for authentication. This class must be loaded prior to use.

FIELD_METHODS (required)

FIELD_METHODS is an arrayref of the methods in the Class::DBI class specified by CLASS to be used during authentication. The order of these methods needs to match the order of the CREDENTIALS. For example, if CREDENTIALS is set to:

  CREDENTIALS => [qw(auth_user auth_domain auth_password)]

Then FIELD_METHODS must be set to:

  FIELD_METHODS => [qw(userid domain password)]

FIELD_METHODS supports filters as specified by CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver

METHODS

verify_credentials

This method will test the provided credentials against the values found in the database, according to the Driver configuration.

AUTHOR

Shawn Sorichetti, "<[email protected]>"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to Cees Hek for writing CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication and his assistance in writing this module.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Shawn Sorichetti, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.