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User::Identity::System(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation User::Identity::System(3pm)NAME
User::Identity::System - physical system of a person
INHERITANCE
User::Identity::System
is a User::Identity::Item
SYNOPSIS
use User::Identity;
use User::Identity::System;
my $me = User::Identity->new(...);
my $server = User::Identity::System->new(...);
$me->add(system => $server);
# Simpler
use User::Identity;
my $me = User::Identity->new(...);
my $addr = $me->add(system => ...);
DESCRIPTION
The "User::Identity::System" object contains the description of the user's presence on a system. The systems are collected by an
User::Identity::Collection::Systems object.
Nearly all methods can return undef.
METHODS
Constructors
User::Identity::System->new([NAME], OPTIONS)
Create a new system. You can specify a name as first argument, or in the OPTION list. Without a specific name, the organization is
used as name.
Option --Defined in --Default
description User::Identity::Item undef
hostname 'localhost'
location undef
name User::Identity::Item <required>
os undef
parent User::Identity::Item undef
password undef
username undef
. description => STRING
. hostname => DOMAIN
The hostname of the described system. It is prefered to use full system names, not abbreviations. For instance, you can better
use "www.tux.aq" than "www" to avoid confusion.
. location => NICKNAME|OBJECT
The NICKNAME of a location which is defined for the same user. You can also specify a User::Identity::Location OBJECT.
. name => STRING
. os => STRING
The name of the operating system which is run on the server. It is adviced to use the names as used by Perl's $^O variable. See
the perlvar man-page for this variable, and perlport for the possible values.
. parent => OBJECT
. password => STRING
The password to be used to login. This password must be un-encoded: directly usable. Be warned that storing un-encoded passwords
is a high security list.
. username => STRING
The username to be used to login to this host.
Attributes
$obj->description
See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->hostname
$obj->location
Returns the object which describes to which location this system relates. The location may be used to find the name of the
organization involved, or to create a signature. If no location is specified, undef is returned.
$obj->name([NEWNAME])
See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->os
$obj->password
$obj->username
Collections
$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->addCollection(OBJECT | ([TYPE], OPTIONS))
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->collection(NAME)
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->find(COLLECTION, ROLE)
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->parent([PARENT])
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->type
User::Identity::System->type
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
$obj->user
See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item
DIAGNOSTICS
Error: $object is not a collection.
The first argument is an object, but not of a class which extends User::Identity::Collection.
Error: Cannot load collection module for $type ($class).
Either the specified $type does not exist, or that module named $class returns compilation errors. If the type as specified in the
warning is not the name of a package, you specified a nickname which was not defined. Maybe you forgot the 'require' the package which
defines the nickname.
Error: Creation of a collection via $class failed.
The $class did compile, but it was not possible to create an object of that class using the options you specified.
Error: Don't know what type of collection you want to add.
If you add a collection, it must either by a collection object or a list of options which can be used to create a collection object.
In the latter case, the type of collection must be specified.
Warning: No collection $name
The collection with $name does not exist and can not be created.
SEE ALSO
This module is part of User-Identity distribution version 0.93, built on December 24, 2009. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/userid/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2003,2004,2007-2009 by Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>. For other contributors see Changes.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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