NAME

Gantry::Control::C::Authen - Database based authentication

SYNOPSIS

use Gantry::Control::C::Authen qw/-Engine=MP20/;

DESCRIPTION

This module allows authentication against a database.

APACHE

Sample Apache conf configuration

            

              
              
 <Location /location/to/auth >
   AuthType    Basic
   AuthName    "Manual"
         
PerlSetVar  auth_dbconn         'dbi:Pg:<database_name>'
PerlSetVar  auth_dbuser         '<database_user>'
PerlSetVar  auth_dbpass         '<database_password>'
         
   PerlSetVar  auth_dbcommit    off
   PerlAuthenHandler    Gantry::Control::C::Authen
   require     valid-user
 </Location>
            
          

DATABASE

This is the table that will be queried for the authentication of the user.

            

              
              
 create table "auth_users" (
   "id"            int4 default nextval('auth_users_seq') NOT NULL,
   "user_id"            int4,
"active"        bool,
   "user_name"     varchar,
   "passwd"        varchar,
"crypt"                 varchar,
   "first_name"    varchar,
   "last_name"     varchar,
   "email"         varchar
 );
            
          

SEE ALSO

Gantry::Control::C::Authz(3), Gantry::Control(3), Gantry(3)

LIMITATIONS

This and all authentication and autorization modules pre-suppose that the auth_* tables are in the same database as the application tables.

AUTHOR

Tim Keefer <tkeefer@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-6, Tim Keefer.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.