Authen-Credential
This module offers abstractions of credentials, i.e. something that
can be used to authenticate. It allows the creation and manipulation of
credentials. In particular, it defines a standard string representation
(so that credentials can be given to external programs as command line
options), a standard structured representation (so that credentials can
be stored in structured configuration files or using JSON) and
"preparators" that can transform credentials into ready-to-use data for
well known targets.
Different authentication schemes (aka credential types) are supported.
This package currently supports "none", "plain" and "x509" but others
can be added by providing the supporting code in a separate module.
A Python implementation of the same credential abstractions is available
at https://github.com/cern-mig/python-auth-credential so credentials can
be shared between different programming languages.
INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc Authen::Credential
perldoc Authen::Credential::none
perldoc Authen::Credential::plain
perldoc Authen::Credential::x509
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) CERN 2011-2015
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.