SYNOPSIS

use base qw(CGI::Application);
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Authorization;
my %groupmap = (
testuser => 'testgroup',
);
# See docs for authorize_user below for an explanation
__PACKAGE__->authz->config(
DRIVER => [ 'Generic', sub {
my ($username,$group) = @_;
return ($groupmap{$username} eq $group);
} ],
);

METHODS

authorize_user

This method accepts a username followed by a list of group names and will return true if the user belongs to at least one of the groups.

It does this by calling the provided callback with the username and a single group until a match is found.

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005, SiteSuite. All rights reserved.

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

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