NAME

Labyrinth::Session - simple indentification functions.

SYNOPSIS

use Labyrinth::Session;
Login($username,$password);
my $logged_in = 1 if(my $user =  ValidSession());

DESCRIPTION

A session management module.

FUNCTIONS

Login

Logout

ValidSession

Reloads an existing session, or creates a new one.

Store

Stores the current request, while the user logs in. (A simple form of continuations)

Retrieve

Retrieves the last request, if the user has logged in. (A simple form of continuations) If the user is already login will set according to their realm.

Authorised($level[,$userid])

Verifies the user has authorisation to the requested level. If userid is omitted, the current user is assumed.

UserAccess

Returns the folders the user (and associated groups) has access to.

VerifyUser

Looks up the user's authorisation level, based on their user id and any groups they belong to.

CheckUser

Given a username and password checks the database to ensure that the user exists. Note that this uses both SHA1 (new encryption) and OLD_PASSWORD (old encyription) to find the user. The latter is preserved for older implementations.

GetFolderIDs

GetGroupIDs

ResetLanguage

UpdateSession

OBJECT METHODS

new

realm

SEE ALSO

Digest::MD5
Labyrinth

AUTHOR

Barbie, <barbie@missbarbell.co.uk> for Miss Barbell Productions, http://www.missbarbell.co.uk/

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions
All Rights Reserved.

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