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authen::simple::password

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

NAME

       Authen::Simple::Password - Simple password checking

SYNOPSIS

	   if ( Authen::Simple::Password->check( $password, $encrypted ) ) {
	       # OK
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       Provides a simple way to verify passwords.

METHODS

       o   check( $password, $encrypted )

	   Returns true on success and false on failure.

SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS

       o   Plain

	   Plaintext

       o   Crypt

	   crypt(3)

       o   Crypt Modular

	   o	   $1$

		   MD5-based password algorithm

	   o	   $apr$

		   MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

       o   LDAP

	   o	   {CLEARTEXT}

		   Plaintext.

	   o	   {CRYPT}

		   Uses crypt(3)

	   o	   {MD5}

		   MD5 algorithm

	   o	   {SMD5}

		   Seeded MD5 algorithm

	   o	   {SHA}

		   SHA-1 algorithm

	   o	   {SSHA}

		   Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

       o   MD5 algorithm

	   Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

       o   SHA-1 algorithm

	   Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

       o   SHA-2 256 algorithm

	   Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple

       crypt(3).

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

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

perl v5.14.2							    2012-04-19					     Authen::Simple::Password(3pm)