debian man page for authen::simple::password

Query: authen::simple::password

OS: debian

Section: 3pm

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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)
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