NAME

CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver::Generic - Generic Authentication driver

SYNOPSIS

use base qw(CGI::Application);
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication;

 __PACKAGE__->authen->config(
       DRIVER => [ 'Generic', { user1 => '123', user2 => '123' } ],
 );

DESCRIPTION

This Driver offers a simple way to provide a user database to the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication plugin. It offers three ways to provide a list of users to the plugin by providing a hash of username/password pairs, an array of arrays containing the username and password pairs, or a code reference that returns back the username, or undef on success or failure.

EXAMPLE

my %users = (
  user1 => '123',
  user2 => '123',
);
__PACKAGE__->authen->config(
      DRIVER => [ 'Generic', \%users ],
);

- or -

my @users = (
  ['example.com', 'user1', '123'],
  ['example.com', 'user2', '123'],
  ['foobar.com', 'user1', '123'],
);
__PACKAGE__->authen->config(
      DRIVER => [ 'Generic', \@users ],
      CREDENTIALS => [ 'authen_domain', 'authen_username', 'authen_password' ]
);

- or -

sub check_password {
  my @credentials = @_;
  if ($credentials[0] eq 'test' && $credentials[1] eq 'secret') {
      return 'testuser';
  }
  return;
}

__PACKAGE__->authen->config(
      DRIVER => [ 'Generic', \&check_password ],
);

METHODS

verify_credentials

This method will test the provided credentials against either the hash ref, array ref or code ref that the driver was configured with.

SEE ALSO

CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver, CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication, perl(1)

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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