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/ Gantry::Control::C::Authen

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
  );

METHODS

handler

The mod_perl authen handler.

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.