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Authen::Simple::DBI(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Authen::Simple::DBI(3pm)

NAME

       Authen::Simple::DBI - Simple DBI authentication

SYNOPSIS

	   use Authen::Simple::DBI;

	   my $dbi = Authen::Simple::DBI->new(
	       dsn	 => 'dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db',
	       statement => 'SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?'
	   );

	   if ( $dbi->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
	       # successfull authentication
	   }

	   # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

	   PerlModule Apache::DBI
	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBI

	   PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_dsn	"dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db"
	   PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_statement "SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?"

	   <Location /protected>
	     PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::DBI
	     AuthType	       Basic
	     AuthName	       "Protected Area"
	     Require	       valid-user
	   </Location>

DESCRIPTION

       DBI authentication.

METHODS

       * new
	   This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

	   * dsn   Database Source Name. Required.

		       dsn => 'dbi:SQLite:dbname=database.db'
		       dsn => 'dbi:mysql:database=database;host=localhost;'

	   * statement
		   SQL statement. The statement must take a single string argument (username) and return a single value (password). Required.

		       statement => 'SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = ?'

	   * username
		   Database username.

		       username => 'username'

	   * password
		   Database password.

		       password => 'secret'

	   * log   Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

		       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::DBI')

       * authenticate( $username, $password )
	   Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::Simple::Password.

       DBI.

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

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

perl v5.8.8							    2008-02-29						  Authen::Simple::DBI(3pm)

Authen::Simple::DBM(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Authen::Simple::DBM(3pm)

NAME

       Authen::Simple::DBM - Simple DBM authentication

SYNOPSIS

	   use Authen::Simple::DBM;

	   my $dbm = Authen::Simple::DBM->new(
	       path => '/var/db/www/passwd'
	   );

	   if ( $dbm->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
	       # successfull authentication
	   }

	   # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
	   PerlModule Authen::Simple::DBM

	   PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBM_path "/var/db/www/passwd"

	   <Location /protected>
	     PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::DBM
	     AuthType	       Basic
	     AuthName	       "Protected Area"
	     Require	       valid-user
	   </Location>

DESCRIPTION

       DBM authentication.

METHODS

       * new
	   This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

	   * path  Path to DBM file. Usually specified without trailing ".db", ".pag" or ".dir" suffix. Required.

		       path => '/var/db/www/passwd'

	   * type  DBM type. Valid options are: "DB", "GDBM", "NDBM" and "SDBM". Defaults to "SDBM".

		       type => 'NDBM'

		   * CDB       Constant Database

		   * DB        Berkeley DB

		   * GDBM      GNU Database Mandager

		   * NDBM      New Database Mandager. "path" should be specified without a trailing ".db" suffix.

		   * SDBM      Substitute Database Mandager. Comes with both with perl and Apache. "path" should be specified without a trailing
			       ".pag" or ".dir" suffix.

	   * log   Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

		       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::DBM')

       * authenticate( $username, $password )
	   Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::Simple::Password.

       htdbm(1)

       dbmmanage(1)

       <http://www.unixpapa.com/incnote/dbm.html> - Overview of various DBM's.

       <http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html> - CDB

       AnyDBM_File - Compares different DBM's

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

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

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01						  Authen::Simple::DBM(3pm)